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majority teachers grade minority and majority students differently for the same work. Using an experiment, I rule out the … existence of such a direct grading bias. I do find indirect evidence for alternative explanations: teachers report lower …
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This paper is the first attempt to assess the impact of official FOREX interventions of the three major central banks … Bayesian framework developed by Bos and Shephard (2004). Our results show that in general, the concerted interventions tend to … affect the dynamics of both currency components of the exchange rate. In contrast, unilateral interventions are found to …
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We use a subsample bootstrap method to get a consistent estimate of the asymptotically optimal choice of the sample fraction, in the sense of minimal mean squared error, which is needed for tail index estimation. Unlike previous methods our procedure is fully self contained. In particular, the...
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side. We use the model to investigate the welfare effects of discrimination (also known as risk selection). We postulate … find that aggregate surplus decreases when risk aversion is high. When risk aversion is low however, discrimination …
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Complete and Incomplete Econometric Models John Geweke Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Contents Series Editors' Introduction vii Preface ...
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-based questionnaire before the experiment and participants’ preferences for resolution timing, risk, and time were incentive compatibly … measured during the experiment. Main findings are that delayed resolution can affect investment, that the effect depends on the …
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maximization problem of the firm. As a result, monitoring and pay should be complements. In our experiment, between and within …
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In this paper we investigate experimentally the functioning of a wage tax financed unemployment benefit system on the development of the budget deficit, unemployment, and some other indicators of economic performance in an international economy. We find support for the hypothesis that...
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