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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers : Dying over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations

Li, Yao Amber - 2012

of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and …

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Shift Working and Trade in Labor Services with Time Zone Differences

Kikuchi, Toru - 2011

countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via … the shift-working commodity is held by pairs of countries in different time zones and connected through a good …

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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries

Pritchett, Lant - 2013

Learning profiles, that track changes in student skills per year of schooling, often find shockingly low learning gains. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of instruction with no progress on basics. We argue shallow...

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Social Norms, Cognitive Dissonance and the Timing of Marriage

Balestrino, Alessandro - 2007

We present a model of courtship in which the timing of marriage is affected by the cognitive dissonance between perceived norms and personal aims. We argue that as long as the family has been the main provider of social protection, marriage has been favoured by strongly felt social norms, and...

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Short Run Gravity

Anderson, James E. - 2017

of 52 countries during the globalization period 1988-2006 strongly supports the model. Results solve several time …

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Optimal Timing in Rotten Kid Families

Faria, João Ricardo - 2017

In a family context with endogenous timing, multiple public goods and alternative parental instruments, we show that the optimal timing for the sequential-action game played by rotten kids and a parent depends crucially on whether the kids are homogeneous or heterogeneous. For homogeneous kids,...

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Deception Under Time Pressure : Conscious Decision or a Problem of Awareness?

Konrad, Kai A. - 2017

Time is a crucial determinant of deception, since some misreporting opportunities come as a surprise and require an … intuitive decision while others allow for extensive reflection time. To be able to pursue a deceptive strategy, however, a … subject must be aware of the misreporting opportunity. This paper provides experimental evidence on the role of the time …

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Sovereign Debt Restructurings : Preemptive or Post-Default

Asonuma, Tamon - 2015

Sovereign debt restructurings can be implemented preemptively -- prior to a payment default. We code a comprehensive new dataset and find that preemptive restructurings (i) are frequent (38% of all deals 1978-2010), (ii) have lower haircuts, (iii) are quicker to negotiate, and (iv) see lower...

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Intraday Anomalies and Market Efficiency : A Trading Robot Analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014

profits. This paper examines whether or not anomalies such as intraday or time of the day effects give rise to exploitable …

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The Timing of Choice-Enhancing Policies

Murooka, Takeshi - 2016

Recent studies investigate policies motivating consumers to make an active choice as a way to protect unsophisticated consumers. We analyse the optimal timing of such choice-enhancing policies when a firm can strategically react to them. In our model, a firm provides an automatic enrollment or...

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