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Multiple politico-economic regimes, inequality and growth
Desdoigts, Alain; Moizeau, Fabien - 2001
In this paper, we abandon the stylized median voter and study (i) how distributional tensions can act in many different ways depending on social affinity and on the prospect of upward or downwardmobility of the different income classes, (ii) income distribution dynamics, intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615432
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Presents or investments? : an experimental analysis
Genîzî, Ûrî; Güth, Werner; Verboven, Frank - 1998
.’s investment game by introducing an upper bound to what a contributor can be repaid afterwards. By varying this upper bound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009578011
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Neoclassical convergence versus technological catch-up : a contribution for reaching a consensus
Desdoigts, Alain - 2000
evidence suggests that the high social returns to investment in equipment (as opposed to structure) reflect technology transfer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583880
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Long-term work contracts versus sequential spot markets : experimental evidence on firm-specific investment
Anderhub, Vital; Königstein, Manfred; Kübler, Dorothea - 1999
investment can also be attained by spot contracts. We replicate such a situation with our experimental design based on a simple … two period game, involving the choke of the contract; length by the principal and an investment choke by the agent. In … contrast to the game theoretic predictions, we find that investment of the worker and length of contract; are strictly …
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Cost competition, fragmentation and globalization
Burda, Michael C.; Dluhosch, Barbara - 2001 - Rev.
This paper proposes a model in which the removal of barriers to trade and factor mobility is associated with endogenous fragmentation of the value-added chain. Fragmentation is the outcome of cost competition - the profit-maximizing choice of cost structure by monopolistically competitive firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613595
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Optimal consumption choice for ratchet investors
Riedel, Frank - 2001
The utility maximization problem of "ratchet investors" who do not tolerate any decline in their consumption rate is solved explicitly for all felicity functions in a Markovian framework which includes Brownian motion and Poisson processes as special cases. The optimal consumption plan turns out...
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Trust and reciprocity in the investment game with indirect reward
Güth, Werner; Königstein, Manfred; Marchand, Nadège; … - 2000
contracting is infeasible. One example is the study by Berg et al. (1995) of the investment game. In this game the person who … receives the investment is the one who may reward the investor. This is a direct reward game. Similar to Dufwenberg et al … investor may only be rewarded by a third person who did not receive his investment. Furthermore we investigate the influence of …
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Quantile hedging
Föllmer, Hans; Leukert, Peter - 1998
In a complete financial market every contingent claim can be hedged perfectly. In an incomplete market it is possible to stay on the safe side by superhedging. But such strategies may require a large amount of initial capital. Here we study the question what an investor can do who is unwilling...
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On model based seasonal adjustment procedures
Breitung, Jörg - 1998
In this note the unobserved component approach underlying the software package SEATS is compared with the Beveridge-Nelson type of decomposition for seasonal time series. The main strength of the SEATS approach lies in the appealing model formulation and the careful specification and adjustment...
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The monetary model of the exchange rate : a structural interpretation
Moersch, Mathias; Nautz, Dieter - 1998
We emphasize the importance of properly identifying the long-run relations underlying the monetary model of the exchange rate. The separate estimation of long-run money demands leads to a "structural" error correction equation which allows an interpretation of the various channels affecting the...
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