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Fertility Shocks and Equilibrium Marriage-Rate Dynamics
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Knowles, John - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2015
Low sex ratios are often equated with unfavorable marriage prospects for women, but in France after World War 1, the … marriage probability of single females rose 50%, despite a massive drop in the male/female ratio. We conjecture that the war …-time birth-rate bust induced an abnormal postwar abundance of singles with relatively high marriage propensities. We compute the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261282
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A leisurely reading of the life-cycle consumption data
Bullard, James Brian (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001982777
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Home bias and high turnover in an overlapping generations model with learning
Guidolin, Massimo (contributor) - 2005
"This paper develops a two-country OLG model under the assumption that investors are on a Bayesian learning path. While investors from both countries receive identical information flows, domestic investors start off with less precise prior beliefs concerning foreign fundamentals. On a learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002917587
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Searching for better prospects : endogenizing falling job tenure and private pension coverage
Friedberg, Leora (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
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A Theory of Targeted Search
Restrepo-Echavarria, Paulina; Cheremukhin, Anton A.; … - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013
We present a theory of targeted search, where people with a finite information processing capacity search for a match … resides in between the random matching and the directed search outcomes. The equilibrium that emerges from this middle ground … and the directed search literature as limiting cases. …
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Understanding the large negative impact of oil shocks
Aguiar-Conraria, Luís (contributor); Wen, Yi (contributor) - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003342498
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Frontiers in monetary policy research : proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Economic Policy Conference of the Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis
Gavin, William T. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003507821
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Another look at sticky prices and output persistence
Wang, Peng-fei (contributor); Wen, Yi (contributor) - 2005
"Price rigidity is the key mechanism for propagating business cycles in traditional Keynesian theory. Yet the New Keynesian literature has failed to show that sticky prices by themselves can effectively propagate business cycles in general equilibrium. We show that price rigidity in fact can (by...
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