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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: An International Comparison

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2013

This note provides an extensive survey of studies estimating steady-state labor supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. Differences are driven by the heterogeneity in work preferences across countries and by methodological difference across studies (data, selection or model estimation...

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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - HAL - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status, with measurement differences netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that...

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Estimating the functional form of road traffic maturity

Nunez, Antonio - HAL - 2008

-term forecasts, due to constant elasticity to gross domestic product these models assume. In this paper we argue that traffic … maturity results from decreasing marginal utility of transport. The elasticity of individual mobility with respect to the … revenue tends to decrease when the level of mobility increases. In order to find evidences of decreasing elasticity we analyse …

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Remittances, Value Added Tax and Tax Revenue in Developing Countries

Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011

This paper examines the impact of international remittances on both the level and the instability of government tax revenue in receiving countries. It investigates in particular whether the presence of a value added tax (VAT) system increases the benefit of the inflows of remittances in terms of...

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BANCOS FUSIONADOS ¿MÁS EFICIENTES?

Ferro, Gustavo; León, Sonia; Romero, Carlos A. - HAL - 2014

Se miden las ganancias potenciales de eficiencia de cinco fusiones de bancos, producidas entre 2005 y 2011, analizándolas con la metodología de análisis envolvente de datos. Dadas las divergencias entre modelos de rendimientos constantes y variables, se testean rendimientos para discernir...

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Hidden Information, Bargaining Power, And Efficiency: An Experiment

Cabrales, Antonio; Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2011

agents affect outcomes and efficiency. Informational asymmetries generate inefficiency. In an environment where principals … principals. In contrast, when agents compete to be hired, efficiency improves dramatically, and it increases in the relative …

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Ownership, Contractual Practices and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Urban Public Transport in France

Roy, William; Yvrande-Billon, Anne - HAL - 2007

This paper investigates the impact of ownership structure and contractual choices on technical efficiency in the French … frontier methodology.The econometric results corroborate our proposition: the technical efficiency of urban public transport …

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Do banking crises enhance efficiency ? A case study of 1994 Turkish and 1997 Indonesian crises

Reynaud, Julien; Rokhim, Rofikoh - HAL - 2005

banking crisis, the post-crisis period should be the time for recovering efficiency. Moreover, traditional banking theory …

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On efficiency and local uniqueness in two-sector OLG economies

Drugeon, Jean-Pierre; Nourry, Carine; Venditti, Alain - HAL - 2009

efficiency and local uniqueness of the competitive equilibrium hold. On the contrary, for lower values of the share of first …

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A value for bi-cooperative games

Labreuche, Christophe; Grabisch, Michel - HAL - 2008

Bi-cooperative games were introduced by Bilbao et al. as a generalization of TU cooperative games, in which each player can participate positively, negatively, or not at all. In this paper, we propose a definition of a share of the worth obtained by some players after they decided on their...

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