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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...

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Unemployment and input prices : a fractional cointegration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2000

This paper examines the relationship between unemployment, real oil price and real interest rates in Canada. Instead of following the classical approach based on I(0) stationarity or I(1) cointegrating relationships, we use fractional integration/cointegration techniques which allow for the...

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Fractional integration and the dynamics of UK unemployment

Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Henry, S. G. B. - 2000

This article is concerned with the dynamic behaviour of UK unemployment. However, instead of using traditional approaches based on I(0) stationary or I(1) (integrated and/or cointegrated) models, we use the fractional integration framework. In doing so, we allow for a more careful study of the...

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Low-probability insurance decisions : the role of concern

Schade, Christian D.; Kunreuther, Howard; Kaas, Klaus Peter - 2002

On the basis of a real high stakes insurance experiment with small probabilities of losses, we demonstrate that concern … is a more important driver of WTP for insurance than subjective probability estimates when there is ambiguity surrounding … probability insurance "puzzle" well known from the literature, where a part of individuals pays too much and a part nothing for …

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Externalities in the matching of workers and firms in Britain

Burgess, Simon M.; Profit, Stefan - 1998

theory. For example, we find that conditional on local labour market conditions, high unemployment levels in neighbouring …

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Employment duration and resistance to wage reductions : experimental evidence

Burda, Michael C.; Güth, Werner; Kirchsteiger, Georg; … - 1998 - Rev.

One of the long-standing puzzles in economics is why wages do not fall sufficiently in recessions so as to avoid increases in unemployment. Put differently, if the competitive market wage declines, why don’t employers simply force their employees to accept lower wages as well? As an...

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Twin peaks in regional unemployment and returns to scale in job-matching in the Czech Republic

Profit, Stefan - 1997

The regional distribution of unemployment rates in the Czech Republic over the transition period is shown to be characterized by twin peaks, e.g. a high and a low unemployment equilibrium. The emergence of strong regional disparities at the beginning of the 1990s can, at least partially, be...

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A nonparametric analysis of regional unemployment dynamics in Britain

Bianchi, Marco; Gylfi Zoega - 1997

This paper estimates the probability distribution of relative county unemployment in Britain for the years 1981-1995. We find that the distribution is unimodal in all years, with a falling variance between 1989 and 1994. We use bootstrap methods to determine critical values for the two tails of...

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Sources of German unemployment : a structural vector error correction analysis

Brüggemann, Ralf - 2001

In this paper we analyze the sources of German unemployment within a structural vector error correction model (SVECM) framework. For this purpose, we propose a method to estimate an exactly identified Subset SVECM, which is a SVECM with short run parameter restrictions. A cointegration analysis...

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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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