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A powerful test of Varian's (1982) generalised axiom of revealed preference (GARP) with two goods requires the consumer's budget line to pass through two demand vectors revealed as chosen given other budget sets. In an experiment using this idea, each of 41 student subjects faced a series of 16...
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capital markets and uncertainty. Our model assumes that consumption decisions occur more frequently than income receipt. We … only the level of consumption function and not the MPC, whilst mean preserving changes in uncertainty affect both. …
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scheme between an income contingent loan and a mortgage loan is preferred for higher level of uncertainty. Assuming a single … sector, to stress on the extreme difference on the level of uncertainty. To make the model more realistic, we allow for the … effects of the uncertainty each year for all the individual working life, assuming that the graduate income grows following a …
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uncertainty. Assuming a single lifetime shock on graduate incomes, we compare the individual expected utilities under the two loan … uncertainty and considering the features of the UK Higher Education Reform to observe the implications of the switch from a ML to …
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direct measures of uncertainty. We present a simple statistical framework in which to define and interrelate measures of … uncertainty and disagreement. The resulting measures are compared with other direct measures of uncertainty, nationally and … internationally. A significant, sustained reduction in inflation uncertainty followed the 1997 granting of operational independence to …
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This paper considers the relationship between tax competition and growth in an endogenous growth model where there are stochastic shocks to productivity, and capital taxes fund a public good which may be for final consumption or an infrastructure input. Absent stochastic shocks, decentralized...
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The main motivation of this paper is to study the impact of the composition of creditors on the probability of default and the risk premium on sovereign bonds, when there is debtor moral hazard. In the absence of any legal enforcement, relational contracts work only when there are creditors who...
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periodically but make consumption decisions on a more frequent basis. The model incorporates price uncertainty and imperfect credit …
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