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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 …
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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 …
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-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 …
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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 …
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, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We …
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Building on a model of the interaction of risk-averse firms that compete in forward and spot markets, we develop an empirical strategy to test whether oligopolistic firms use forward contracts for strategic motives, for risk-hedging, or for both. An increase in the number of players weakens the...
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New England is at the leading edge of an energy transition in which natural gas is playing an increasingly important role in the US electricity generation mix. In recent years, the region's wholesale natural gas and electricity markets have experienced severe, simultaneous price spikes. While...
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Natural gas is likely to become increasingly important in the future. Understanding the stochastic underpinnings of natural gas prices will be critical, both to policy analysts and to market participants. To this end, we investigate the potential presence of jumps in natural gas spot prices in...
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demand for natural gas creating gas-specific pricing. Using the model to infer relative values when evidence favors …
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the time of the year. Most of the reversion back to oil occurs in spring and summer when demand for gas to heating and …
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