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individual’s decision to start a business is determined by his or her age and, therefore, that a change in a region’s age … distribution affects the expected number of startups in the region. Using German regional data, we estimate a count-data model and …
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One of the leading criticisms of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is the presence of so-called “anomalies”, i.e. empirical evidence of abnormal behaviour of asset prices which is inconsistent with market efficiency. However, most studies do not take into account transaction costs. Their...
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prices are farther away from fundamentals compared to consensus. This defines a “Keynesian” region; the complementary region …
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This paper examines short-term price reactions after one-day abnormal price changes and whether they create exploitable profit opportunities in various financial markets. A t-test confirms the presence of overreactions and also suggests that there is an “inertia anomaly”, i.e. after an...
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This paper provides some new empirical evidence on the weekend effect, one of the most recognized anomalies in financial markets. Two different methods are used: (i) a trading robot approach to examine whether or not there is such an anomaly giving rise to exploitable profit opportunities by...
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When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …
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favorable conditions for matching on the one hand, and for global collective decisions on the other hand. We establish …
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This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy with matching frictions, where workers and jobs are … receive a job offer from each region. The rest of the framework builds upon Moretti (2011). Increasing the matching … loss in net output is non negligible and rising in the matching effectiveness in the other region. …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of …
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We investigate the possibility that a decision-maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. In a series of experiments the participants often choose lotteries between allocations, which contradicts most theories of choice such as...
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