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Reis, Ricardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

I present and solve the problem of a producer who faces costs of acquiring, absorbing, and processing information. I establish a series of theoretical results describing the producer's behaviour. First, I find the conditions under which she prefers to set a plan for the price she charges, or...

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Prospects for Output and Employment Growth with Steady Inflation

Dungey, M.; Pitchford, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

Monetary policy affects both real variables, such as employment, unemployment and output and nominal variables such as nominal interest and inflation rates. For close to a decade the principal focus of monetary policy has been on inflation. During a recession, or when one appears imminent, the...

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A Search Model of Optimal Pricing and Production

Alpern, Steve; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

and production decisions. We show how this methodology can be used to determine an optimal sequence of price …. We compare and contrast the high-low model with the conventional microeconomic model of pricing and production. We show … how the firm uses its pricing and production decisions to partition the uncertainty interval it faces and thereby …

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Adjustment and Performance of the Textile and Clothing Industry in the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal

Benacek, Vladimir; Caban, Wieslaw; Corado, Cristina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

contribution of the new, private firms in the Czech Republic to find that production and employment in the clothing industry …

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin

Gang, Ira; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

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Informational Cascades and Decision to Migrate

Epstein, Gil S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We introduce the idea that informational cascades can explain the observed regularity that emigrants from the same locations also tend to choose the same foreign locations. Thus informational cascades generates herd behaviour. Herd behaviour is compared with the network externalities explanation...

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Post-Reform East and West: Capital Accumulation and the Labor Mobility Constraint

Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

is on the wage pressure that the threat of migration from East to West is likely to impose. The paper adopts a Ramsey … the East. All these effects are reduced by the migration-induced wage pressure as less capital is accumulated in the East …

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Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application

Epstein, Gil S; Lecker, Tikva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000) more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and second-generation migrants. This Paper presents a three-generation migrant analysis, comparing relative economic performance of...

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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...

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