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Secondary data-set have come to play an increasing role in empirical economic research. This paper examines the major new secondary data-set assembled by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire and the World Bank. We concentrate on its coverage of the OECD countries. We have particularly in mind the user...
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sunk costs are indeed related to the need to collect information on foreign market/country characteristics. …
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We develop a model which accounts for the observed equity premium and average risk free rate, without implying counterfactually high risk aversion. The model also does well in accounting for business cycle phenomena.
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This paper studies the role of citizens� demand for political information in elections and provides a possible … incentives to gather political information may derive from its relevance to private choices. Under quite mild assumptions, the … demand for political information is increasing in income. Information affects citizens� responsiveness to electoral …
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We investigate the role of information spillovers (IS) in determining firms' labor adjustments. We test the proposition … that information on relevant state variables spills over through one firm's decision th those of other firms, assuming that …
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