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The Effects of the Subprime Crisis on the Latin American Financial Markets: An Empirical Assessment

Dufrénot, Gilles; Mignon, Valérie; Peguin-Feissolle, Anne - HAL - 2011

The aim of this article is to answer the following question: can the considerable rise in the volatility of the LAC stock markets in the aftermath of the 2007/2008 crisis be explained by the worsening financial environment in the US markets? To this end, we rely on a time-varying transition...

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You can't be happier than your wife. Happiness Gaps and Divorce

Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - HAL - 2011

into account by any existing economic models of the household. The relationship between happiness gaps and divorce is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793921

Analyzing and comparing Professional Service Firms over services, time and space. Proposition of a foundation framework

Gand, Sébastien - HAL - 2010

different factors of heterogeneity between PSFs, there is still a lack of an integrated and actionable framework which would … help analyzing PSFs changes, heterogeneity and distinctiveness over services, time and space. We propose a foundation …

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Heterogeneous anchoring in dichotomous choice valuation framework

Flachaire, Emmanuel; Hollard, Guillaume; Luchini, Stephane - HAL - 2007

This article addresses the important issue of anchoring in contingent valuation surveys that use the double-bounded elicitation format. Anchoring occurs when responses to the follow-up dichotomous choice valuation question are influenced by the bid presented in the initial dichotomous choice...

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Cooperation in a Game of Chicken with Heterogeneous Agents: An Experimental Study

Cabon-Dhersin, Marie-Laure; Etchart-Vincent, Nathalie - HAL - 2008

Using a two-stage Game of Chicken, Cabon-Dhersin and Ramani (2007) examine the impact of population heterogeneity on …

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Should we subsidize longevity?

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

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On the impact of trade on industrial structures: The role of entry cost heterogeneity

Oyama, Daisuke; Sato, Yasuhiro; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; … - HAL - 2009

This paper investigates the impacts of progressive trade openness, technological externalities, and heterogeneity of … make the symmetric equilibrium unstable, generating equilibrium multiplicity, while sufficient heterogeneity of individuals …

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Two-Period Comparison of Healthcare Demand with Income Growth and Population Aging in Rural China: Implications for Adjustment of the Healthcare Supply and Development

Audibert, Martine; He, Yong; Mathonnat, Jacky - HAL - 2013

We estimate the evolution of healthcare demand under the influence of income growth and population aging with two … with heterogeneity. In accordance with theoretical and inductive inferences, it is found that healthcare price effects … decreased and became more heterogeneous. Aging impact overweighed income growth impact, resulting in increasing distance effect …

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Heterogeneous Beliefs and Asset Pricing in Discrete Time

Napp, Clotilde; Jouini, Elyès - HAL - 2006

consumer to investigate the impact of beliefs heterogeneity on the CCAPM and on the expression of the risk free rate. We focus …

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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the … celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity, non linearity in schooling, non-separability between the effects of … on unobserved and observed skills. Skill heterogeneity is also found to be over-estimated when non-linearity is ignored …

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