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asymptotically stable random fixed point. The statistical properties of the aggregates output, consumption, capital stock, and real …
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This study compares individual preferences across incentives (i.e., hypothetical vs. real incentives) and over time (i.e. elicitation at two different points in time) in a choice experiment involving charitable donating decisions. We provide evidence of hypothetical bias but little evidence of...
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direction of over-consumption. This over-consumption is partly driven by loss avoidance, comparable to a real life situation in …
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Temporary fluctuations of the U.S. consumption-wealth ratio, cay, predict excess returns on international stock markets …
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Durable goods ownership is commonly seen as a ‘defining gauge’ for the stage of development of a country. Its unprecedented economic growth and the rise of a strong and steadily growing class of consumers make China a formidable case study for the investigation of durable goods diffusion....
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This paper develops a multi-sector model to: (i) quantify the feedback from women entering the labor force on the service sector size, and (ii) compute differences in hours worked by gender from taxes, structural change and female employment. Increases in female employment, due to rising wages...
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This paper examines the evolution of women in the labor market, specifically their post-World War II employment, wages and education, by assessing the role of technology changing labor demand requirements, as a driving force. The empirical results in the United Sates data show that job...
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In spite of two decades of financial globalization, consumption-based indicators do not seem to signal more … international risk sharing. We argue that consumption risk sharing among industrialised countries has actually increased - in … particular since the 1990s - but that standard consumption-based measures of risk sharing - such as the volatility of consumption …
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Idiosyncratic consumption risk explains more than 60 percent of the cross-sectional variation in quarterly exchange … international version of the consumption capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) in which we account for international consumption … heterogeneity. We use this framework to dissect the consumption-exchange rate anomaly, the empirical fact that international …
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consumption) was partly responsible for the decline in household savings and in growth that could be observed in some developed …
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