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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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emotions. This conjecture is tested in an experiment with real lottery tickets. We show that our theoretical considerations may …
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decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on risky choices is explored in an experiment … the predictions of prospect theory extrapolated to a social context. …
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-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed …
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