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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage Market Value of Young Men
Autor, David H. - 2018
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...
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Investment Policy for Time-Inconsistent Discounters
Harstad, Bård - CESifo - 2013
the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future … savings and decrease investments in the strategic substitutes, for example. To characterize the principal’s choices they are … benefits from subsidizing investments in “green” capital (complementary to future savings) and tax investments in substitute …
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Estimating Fluctuations in Oil and Gas Investment
Dahl, Roy Endré; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2014
Governments in extraction countries are anxious to estimate expected investment in development projects, since they represent an essential element of the macro economy. The overall level of activity is also crucial to oil companies, since the macro picture affects cost levels, the supplies...
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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - CESifo - 2007
The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
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Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as an Escape from the Bertrand Paradox
Foros, Oystein; Hagen, Kare P.; Kind, Hans Jarle - CESifo - 2007
firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in aggregate. The model is consistent with observations from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094252
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Exit Dynamics of Start-up Firms: Does Profit Matter?
Golombek, Rolf; Raknerud, Arvid - CESifo - 2015
We estimate by means of indirect inference a structural economic model where firms’ exit and investment decisions are the solution to a discrete-continuous dynamic programming problem. In the model the exit probability depends on the current capital stock and a measure of short-run...
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Competition between State Universities
Grazzini, Lisa - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching. By considering a set-up where two state universities behave strategically, we model their interaction with potential students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that...
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Competition and Trust : Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129248
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Emotions in Litigation Contests
Baumann, Florian - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that...
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