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Estimating and testing intertemporal preferences: A unified framework for consumption, work and savings

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2004

are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities …

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Estimating and testing preferences for consumption, work hours and savings using the PSID, the profit function and the true dynamic budget constraint

Chin, William - EconWPA - 2003

are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities. … profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities …

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Health, Pension Benefits and Longevity How They Affect Household Savings?

Oliveira Martins, Joaquim; El Mekkaoui de Freitas, Najat - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014

savings. In line with life-cycle theory, we found that longevity increases saving ratios. …

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Interrelationships Between Labor and Capital Adjustment Decisions

Narazani, Edlira - EconWPA - 2004

superior management expertise that allows them to predict market fluctuations and plan the expansion and investment strategies …) adjustment and validate the use of a discrete choice modelling thereafter. Investment process occurs more smoothly than … anticipate the investment spikes by hiring one year in advance in addition to the simultaneous hiring. These firms possess a …

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Saving does not equal investment

Booncharoenpol, Boonserm - EconWPA - 2005

SAVING DOES NOT EQUAL INVESTMENT John Maynard Keynes confused economists and politicians all over the world when he … wrote, “Saving is necessary to equal investment” together with a few equations to confirm his idea and finally concluding … that S = I. There have been repeated discussions about how saving can equal investment, accidentally or with certainty. We …

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Of Regulatory Law

Carloff, Andy - EconWPA - 2005

Some thoughtful questions and linear answers to the economic, social, and political consequencs that comes with restrictive regulating laws. 'Regulatory law is where Socialism meets Liberalism; or what might be called the highest form of Liberalism, the lowest form of Socialism.'

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Trade policy, cross-border externalities and lobbies: do linked agreements enforce more cooperative outcomes?

Limão, Nuno - EconWPA - 2002

If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non-pecuniary externalities), will this promote more cooperation in both policies or will cooperation in one policy be strengthened at the expense of the other? We analyze this question in...

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GLOBALIZATION AND GOALS: Does soccer show the way?

Milnaovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

there is free circulation of labor, increasing returns to scale, and endogeneity of skills, this produces on the one hand …

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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. This...

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Modelling Households' Savings and Dwellings Investment - A Portfolio Choice Approach

Vadas, Gabor - EconWPA - 2005

correlation between the return on housing investment and consumption not only implies positive relationship between the portfolio … share of housing investment and excess return but also renders the housing wealth inappropriate in consumption smoothing. We …A house is generally considered as a 'roof over one's head', however, housing can be regarded as an investment or asset …

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