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The paper considers a two-country model of overlapping generations heterogenous
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The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy with heterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features: <OL> <LI>heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital; <LI>intergenerational transfers,...</li></li></ol>
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a two-period consumption and savings model for a loss-averse agent who measures utility from consumption relative to a … of the return on saving. We find non-linearity in the fraction of wealth saved, where the specific saving pattern depends … on the sign of the real return on savings. The amount of saving is nondecreasing in initial wealth and the riskiness of …
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We evaluate the impact of technology adoption subsidies on in- vestment behavior in an individual choice experiment. In a laboratory setting professional managers are confronted with an intertemporal decision problem in which they have to decide whether or not to search for, and possibly adopt,...
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actually deceiving anyone. The design should be suitable for most economics experiments, and works by a modification of an … deception is used and the data cohere well both internally and with other public goods experiments. In addition, simultaneous …
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allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …
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Total Factor Productivity (TFP)is often used on the macro-economic level as an indicator of changes in efficiency of a country. In many transition economies TFP is seen to have been negative the last decade of the plan economy and starts increasing and become positive after a (quite a) few years...
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We analyze the economic forces underlying cross-border Mergers and Acquistions (M&As) using a large bilateral panel data set. The frequent occurrence of "zero" observations provides essential information on the structure of M&A flows, which we model empirically using a two-stage procedure. At...
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consumption and portfolio theory shows that the younger generations should have the higher equity exposure due to their human … capital. Stock market losses should be distributed smoothly over lifetime consumption by adjusting both current contributions …
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This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct investment with respect to company tax levels. To that end, we extend the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003) by considering an alternative classification of the...
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