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of export shares from the most to the least productive incumbents. Greater skewness of the demand distribution and …
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We use perturbation methods to derive a rule for the optimal risk-adjusted social cost of carbon (SCC) that incorporates the effects of uncertainties associated with climate and the economy from a calibrated DSGE model. We allow for different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations,...
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This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes...
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uncertainty and skewness. Embedding these measures in a VAR framework, we show that unexpected changes in uncertainty are … associated with an increase in (left) skewness and a downturn in real activity. Empirical findings related to VAR impulse … response of skewness to uncertainty shocks shows that skewness substantially amplifies the recessionary effects of uncertainty. …
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