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Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation activity performed by heavy transport vehicles across...
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repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the … transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by … negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to …
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beliefs; (ii) whether this bias would disappear for weight and height, when the information is perfectly available. We find a … information is readily available as in height and weight. We present evidence from our experiment that limited attention and self …
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vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses the information that members have about … information structure when persons with different abilities contribute to a joint project, as in the context of teamwork or …
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, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …
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under imperfect information, these findings are consistent with Indonesia citizens over-estimating the net gains from …
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outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still …This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market … the comprehensive information service when they were young. The results suggest that individuals, who went to school in …
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Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … networks that are more integrated in the society of the host country can give more accurate information about job prospects to …
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and use. Our evidence points to the role of imperfect information. The introduction of IRS may have made the problem of …
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) have all the relevant information they need to make proper decisions. We address this issue by exploiting the data … information on students' pre-test enrollment intentions, their final track choices and their performances in the upper secondary … Arianna. However, students (and their parents) are likely to revise their initial choice when new information on their true …
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