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Using private job agencies : optimal screening or cream skimming?
Kübler, Dorothea - 1997
In a model with private information of the worker about her ability and unobservable effort choice, the role of public and private employment services is analyzed. The coexistence of an inefficient employment exchange and an efficient private agency may lead to optimal screening with first best...
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Predictive accuracy of political stock markets : empirical evidence from a European perspective
Berlemann, Michael; Schmidt, Carsten - 2001
In a meta study of 25 political stock markets conducted in Germany in the last decade we analyze their predictive success. Although the predictions of political stock markets are highly correlated with the corresponding polls, the markets are able to aggregate additional information. One...
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Co-evolution of preferences and information in simple games of trust
Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Peleg, Bezalel - 1998
In standard rational choice modelling decisions are made according to given information and preferences. In the model presented here the 'information technology' of individual decision makers as well as their preferences evolve in a dynamic process. In this process decisions are made rationally...
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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
Dismissal rules, i.e. legally enforced long term contracts, have beem defended against criticism for, among other things, providing efficient incentives to invest in relationship specific skills. However, in many situations efficient investment can also be attained by spot contracts. We...
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The local power of some unit root tests for panel data
Breitung, Jörg - 1999
(1993) and Im, Pesaran and Shin (1997) suggest bias adjusted t-statistics. Such corrections are necessary to account for the … affected by two different terms. The first term represents the asymptotic effect on the bias due the detrending method and the … do not require a bias correction. The results of a Monte Carlo experiment suggest that avoiding the bias can improve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581103
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Measurement error, biases, and the validation of complex models
Carroll, Raymond J.; Galindo, Christian D. - 1997
There are three major points to this article: 1. Measurement error causes biases in regression fits. The line one would obtain if one could accurately measure exposure to environmental lead media will differ in important ways when one measures exposure with error. 2. The effects of measurement...
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Manipulation in political stock markets : preconditions and evidence
Hansen, Jan; Schmidt, Carsten; Strobel, Martin - 2001
, specific preconditions were drawn out under which manipulation in PSM can weaken this argument. Evidence for manipulation is … ; decisive vote illusion ; manipulation …
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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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The false consensus effect disappears if representative information and monetary incentives are given
Engelmann, Dirk; Strobel, Martin - 1999
In this paper we present an experiment on the false consensus effect. Unlike previous experiments, we provide monetary incentives for revealing the actual estimation of others' behavior. In each session and round sixteen subjects make a choice between two options simultaneously. Then they...
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Canonical decomposition of linear transformations of two independent Brownian motions
Föllmer, Hans; Wu, Ching-Tang; Yor, Marc - 1998
filtering theory ; enlargement of filtration ; canonical decomposition ; Sturm-Liouville equation ; Volterra kernels …
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