This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … small. Finally, work timing behavior affects the demand for informal child care, but not the demand for formal child care …

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that … demand. The presence of a cost of firing or hiring as in Bagliano & Bertola (2004) generates an intertemporal element to a …

-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that … the demand for life insurance reacted strongly to this change. With regard to bequest motives, we analyze the demand for … viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations which …

In this paper we conduct a counterfactual analysis and estimate the quantitative importance of demand and supply … isolate the impact of capital-skill complementarity (i.e., demand effects) and varying skill-specific labor supply (i …

, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We …

the viewers' equilibrium demand for high quality content. We find that, although consumers dislike advertisements, an …

Using recent advances in panel data estimation techniques, we find that an appreciation of the US dollar exchange rate … leads to a significant decline in oil demand for a sample of 65 oil-importing countries. The estimated effect turns out to … of the US dollar on oil demand tends to be declining over time and, for a subsample of OECD countries, stronger for an …

and demand. Supply disruptions turn out to be a bigger factor in historical oil price movements and inventory accumulation … a significant lag, whereas shocks to oil demand do not …

This paper analyzes dynamic cartel formation and antitrust enforcement when firms operate in demand-related markets. We …

and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived … demand for productive factors, the distribution of factor incomes, and Marshall's Four Rules. This short paper notes that a …