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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations in Crime: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Hjalmarsson, Randi; Lindquist, Matthew - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …

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The Economic Impact of Central Bank Transparency: A Survey

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Cruijsen, Carin A B van der - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We provide an up-to-date overview of the literature on the desirability of central bank transparency from an economic viewpoint. Since the move towards more transparency, a lot of research on its effects has been carried out. First, we show how the theoretical literature has evolved, by looking...

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Limits of Arbitrage: The State of the Theory

Gromb, Denis; Vayanos, Dimitri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We survey theoretical developments in the literature on the limits of arbitrage. This literature investigates how costs … from behavioral or from institutional considerations. We next survey, and nest within a simple model, the following costs …

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Actual Versus Perceived Central Bank Transparency: The case of the European Central Bank

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Cruijsen, Carin A B van der - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

household survey on the European Central Bank’s transparency. To benefit from higher transparency perceptions the European …

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Asset Prices with Heterogenous Beliefs

Basak, Suleyman - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This article studies the dynamic behaviour of security prices in the presence of investors’ heterogeneous beliefs. We provide a tractable continuous-time pure-exchange model and highlight the mechanism through which investors’ differences of opinion enter into security prices. In the...

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A Nationwide Laboratory Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioural Experiments into Representative Surveys

Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs; Schupp, Jürgen; von … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioural relevance. Here we present a … interaction among the participants, with a survey of non-interacting respondents in a smooth and inexpensive way. We illustrate … the power of our approach with the analysis of trust and trustworthiness in Germany by combining representative survey …

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

while IT adoption had substantial effects on a wide range of police organizational practices, it had, by itself, a …

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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