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and Portugal) the results underscore the empirical validity of the export hysteresis under uncertainty model …We argue that, under certain conditions described by a sunk cost hysteresis model, firms consider exports as a … export market and vice versa takes place in a smooth manner. Areas of weak reaction of exports to changes in domestic demand …
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Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper …
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We embed a North-South trade model into an incomplete contracts setting where the production of heterogeneous firms can be geographically separated. When a Northern headquarter contracts with a Southern supplier instead of a Northern supplier, the presence of international incomplete contracts...
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uncertainty over this migration upper bound may improve the government's control on migration inflows (quotas). This could explain …
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costs have to be made. Not the arrival of this substitute matters for efficiency, but the uncertainty about the timing of …
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In this article, we analyse the interactions between financial and start-up decisions in an oligopolistic framework, where firms compete to enter a new market. We show that preemption can substantially reduce the negative effects of credit rationing on start-up investment decisions
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whether inflation uncertainty has diminished following the introduction of the Euro in Europe. Consumers' responses to the …. Regarding inflation uncertainty, the data indicate a relationship with country size, suggesting that within EMU, inflation … uncertainty may increase in countries that have a smaller influence on ECB policy …
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We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, during our sample period individuals earn markedly different average returns on their...
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This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries by using two alternative measures: the AR coefficient and the fractional differencing parameter, based on short- and long-memory processes respectively. The evidence suggests...
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Asymmetric persistence of accounting income is often tested in a regression of changes in earnings on lagged changes in earnings, including an interaction term for negative changes (see Basu [1997] or Ball et al. [2009] for a recent overview). In this note we propose an alternative, but closely...
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