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Measuring Risk Attitudes in a Natural Experiment: Data from the Television Game Show LINGO

Beetsma, Roel; Schotman, Peter C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We use data from a television game show, involving elementary lotteries and substantial prize money, as a natural experiment to measure risk attitudes. We find robust evidence of substantial risk aversion. As an extension, we esimate the various models using transformations of the ‘true’...

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Financial Integration: A New Methodology and an Illustration

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper develops a simple new methodology to test for asset integration and applies it within and between American stock markets. Our technique is tightly based on a general intertemporal asset-pricing model, and relies on estimating and comparing expected risk-free rates across assets....

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Estimating the Expected Marginal Rate of Substitution: Exploiting Idiosyncratic Risk

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

arbitrarily over time. A novel feature of our technique is that it relies upon exploiting idiosyncratic risk, since theory …

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Takeovers and the Dynamics of Information Flows

Chemla, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper analyses the effect of a possible takeover on information flows and on the terms of trade in business relationships. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately-informed stakeholder, a buyer for example. In our model, takeovers both increase the surplus from...

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Currency Unions and International Integration

Engel, Charles M; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper characterizes the integration patterns of international currency unions (such as the CFA Franc zone and the East Caribbean Currency Area). We empirically explore different features of currency unions, and compare them both to countries with sovereign monies, and to regions within...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balázs - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

constant markups. The differences are important quantitatively; price differences in Hungarian exports between Germany and the …

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Heterogeneity in Wage Setting Behavior in a New-Keynesian Model

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Grajales, Anderson; Uras, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

In this paper we estimate a New-Keynesian DSGE model with heterogeneity in price and wage setting behavior. In a recent … study, Coibion and Gorodnichenko (2011) develop a DSGE model, in which firms follow four different types of price setting … heterogeneity in wage rigidity, such as the persistence in price and the wage inflation, which a standard New Keynesian model with …

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How Often Should you Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents

Ichino, Andrea; Muehlheusser, Gerd - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper shows that over monitoring a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may not be optimal if the goal is to determine loyalty and if the cost of ending the relationship increases over time. This intuition is simple: by monitoring too much we lose the opportunity to learn how the...

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Punishment Without Crime? Prison as a Worker-Discipline Device

Miller, Marcus; Smith, Jennifer C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

An ‘efficiency wage’ model developed for Western economies is reinterpreted for Soviet Russia assuming that it was the Gulag not unemployment that acted as a ‘worker-discipline device’. Archival data now available allows for a basic account of the dynamics of the Gulag to be estimated....

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Adversarial and Inquisitorial Procedures in Arbitration

Shin, Hyun Song - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

Should arbitrators adjudicate on the basis of their own investigations, or invite the interested parties to make their cases and decide on the basis of the information so gathered? I call the former the inquisitorial procedure in arbitration and the latter the adversarial procedure. I conduct a...

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