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The Neighbor is King: Customer Discrimination in the Housing Market

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Decreuse, Bruno; Schmutz, Benoît - HAL - 2012

This paper provides a method to single out customer-based discrimination in the housing market. We build a matching model with ethnic externalities where landlords differ in the number of housing units they own within the same building. Multiple-dwelling landlords discriminate more often than...

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Loss Aversion and Seller Behavior: Evidence from the Housing Market: Comment Working Paper

Buisson, Florent - HAL - 2013

In an often quoted article, Genesove and Mayer (2001) observe that house sellers are reluctant to sell at a loss, and attribute this finding to loss aversion. I show that loss aversion cannot explain this phenomenon.

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Effect of organic contract farming on labor demand. A study case in the Western Uganda

Guimas, Céline - HAL - 2012

In order to fully evaluate the impacts of organic contract farming scheme, spillovers on the local community, including people that do not directly participate in such scheme, need to be evaluated. One of these spillovers is the creation of employment opportunities and this is the focus of this...

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Vulnerabilities in Central and Eastern European countries: Dynamics of asymmetric shocks

Zdzienicka-Durand, Aleksandra - HAL - 2009

In this work, we use the VAR and space-state methodology to analyze how the recent developments in 20 European countries have modified the dynamics of structural shocks. Our results confirm a visible progress in (predominated output fluctuations) supply shocks convergence between the CEECs and...

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Evaluation of Nonlinear time-series models for real-time business cycle analysis of the Euro area

Billio, Monica; Ferrara, Laurent; Guegan, Dominique; … - HAL - 2009

In this paper, we aim at assessing Markov-switching and threshold models in their ability to identify turning points of economic cycles. By using vintage data that are updated on a monthly basis, we compare their ability to detect ex-post the occurrence of turning points of the classical...

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Economic analysis of the European cement industry

Boyer, Marcel; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2013

We present a methodology to assess the profitability of a capital intensive industry over a business cycle and to make projections of profitability for different investment strategies under various hypothetical scenarios for environmental and competition policies. The methodology is applied to...

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Trend shocks and business cycles in Sub Saharan Africa

Naoussi, Claude Francis; Tripier, Fabien - HAL - 2010

This article explores the role of trend shocks in explaining the specificities of business cycles in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using the methodology introduced by Aguiar and Gopinath (2007) [Emerging Market Business Cycles: The Cycle Is the Trend Journal of Political Economy 115(1)]....

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Welfare Cost of Fluctuations: when Labor Market Search Interacts with Financial Frictions

Iliopulos, Eleni; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - HAL - 2014

We provide a quantitative assessment of welfare costs of fluctuations in a search model with financial frictions. The matching process in the labor market leads positive shocks to reduce unemployment less than negative shocks increase it. We show that the magnitude of this non-linearity is...

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A Revision of the US Business- Cycles Chronology 1790–1928

Charles, Amélie; Darné, Olivier; Diebolt, Claude - HAL - 2011

This article extends earlier efforts at redating the US business cycles for the 1790–1928 period using the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) constructed by Johnson and Williamson (2007). We compare the alternative chronology with those of the NBER and Davis (2006) as well as Romer (1994) for...

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Does diversity of bank board members affect performance and risk? Evidence from an emerging market

Setiyono, Bowo; Tarazi, Amine - HAL - 2014

to various alternative performance measures, including risk adjusted returns, and estimation methods. …This study investigates the influence of background diversity of bank board members on performance and risk. Using data … associated with performance except when it relates to ethnicity. It not only reduces performance per se but also increases risk …

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