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Should education become more vocational or more general? We address this question in two steps. We first build and … education type vehicles three main externalities: specialists boost job creation in each sector; generalists improve the … unemployment rates by type of education in 2000. Self-selection is always inefficient: taxing vocational education to reduce the …
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Modified Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model is employed, combining with Hamilton (1989) type Markov regime switching framework, to study foreign exchange rates, where all parameter values depend on the value of a continuous time Markov chain. Basing on real data of some foreign exchange rates, the...
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We document the numerical aspects of the calibration of cross-currency options on the local volatility framework. We …
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We investigate in this paper the recovery of the local volatility surface in a parametric framework similar to that of Coleman, Li and Verma [4]. The quality of a surface is assessed through a functional which is optimized; the specificity of the approach is to separate the optimization on the...
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We document the calibration of the local volatility in terms of local and implied instantaneous variances; we first …
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Estimates of the elasticity of substitution between domestic and foreign varieties are small in macroeconomic data, and substantially larger in disaggregated studies. This may be an artifact of heterogeneity. We use disaggregated multilateral trade data to structurally identify elasticities of...
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stochastic volatility model for each stock with volatility driven by the index. This result is useful in a calibration …
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determined by education and pollution. The government can implement a tax on pollution and recycle the revenue in public … pollution abatement and/or education subsidy (influencing green behaviors). When agent's preferences for the environment are … the tax revenue is well allocated between education and direct environmental protection. …
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This paper analyzes the relationships between HIV/AIDS and education taking into account the appropriative nature of … child income. We first build a simple theoretical model linking parental health risk, educational choice and appropriation …
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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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