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This note explores the interaction between trade integration and asymmetric choices of technology adoption. It seeks to bring micro foundations of Örm heterogeneity into an open-economy model. By so doing, the analysis shows the complementarity between an imperfect competition framework of...
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During the last half-century, the evolution of educational attainment among Malaysians has been spectacular, and current enrollment rates suggest this progression will continue, albeit at a slower pace. Such a transformation of the educational attainment of labor should bring about macroeconomic...
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and Stiglitz 'model. In this case, we show that the optimal contract exhibits a deductible for the high health risk type … low health risk type. …
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We consider the problem of optimal risk sharing of some given total risk between two economic agents characterized by … law-invariant monetary utility functions or equivalently, law-invariant risk measures. We first prove existence of an … optimal risk sharing allocation which is in addition increasing in terms of the total risk. We next provide an explicit …
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The last five years have witnessed a great momentum in the research into measures of financial risk. After many years …-friendly solutions have been proposed. These new measures of risk should be of great interest for investors, financial institutions as … perspective across a wide selection of topics, ranging from the critique of some currently used methods, like Value at Risk, to …
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of assets with short-selling where there is risk and ambiguity. Agents have Bewley’s incomplete preferences. As an … of the risk adjusted sets of probabilities intersect. The more risk averse, the more ambiguity averse the agents, the …
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committee’s meetings. The risk of losing face, which is not felt in the same way by the attendees depending on their status, is … a central motivation for this phenomenon. Directors perceive a risk that their impressions are cynically managed. Then … reflexive social control: the actors who report to the committee criticize themselves. Risk leads them to self-discipline; Trust …
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indeed provide liquidity, is challenged by the price risk they bear due to their inventory. In this paper, we provide optimal …
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In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown that the economic costs related to the death of...
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