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Refueling a quiet fire : old truthers and new discontent in the wake of Covid-19
Beccari, Gabriele; Giaccherini, Matilde; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2023
This paper investigates the factors that contributed to the proliferation of online COVID skepticism on Twitter across Italian municipalities. We demonstrate that socio-demographic factors are likely to mitigate the emergence of skepticism, while populist political leanings were more likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014442765
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Prediction and identification in two-sided markets
Boik, Andre - 2018
answers and can be used to estimate market power and pass through rates. I show that even a naive one-sided model that ignores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789113
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How effective are advertising bans? : on the demand for quality in two-sided media markets
Greiner, Tanja; Sahm, Marco - 2011
We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240018
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Germany's economic unification : an assessment after ten years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781521
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Effects of unilateral climate policy on terms of trade, capital accumulation, and welfare in a world economy
Farmer, Karl (contributor); Friedl, Birgit (contributor);  … - 2008
, if the country which unilaterally reduces her emission permits is a net creditor to the world economy, her own welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749461
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A general approach to recovering market expectations from futures prices with an application to crude oil
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
Futures markets are a potentially valuable source of information about price expectations. Exploiting this information has proved difficult in practice, because time-varying risk premia often render the futures price a poor measure of the market expectation of the price of the underlying asset....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434566
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Relative prices and climate policy : how the scarcity of non-market goods drives policy evaluation
Drupp, Moritz A.; Hänsel, Martin C. - 2020
Climate change not only impacts production and market consumption, but also the relative scarcity of non-market goods, such as environmental amenities. We study fundamental drivers of the resulting relative price changes, their potential magnitude, and their implications for climate policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154637
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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003983206
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism : a survey (Part I)
Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956021
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The economics of terrorism and counter-terrorism : a survey (Part II)
Schneider, Friedrich; Brück, Tilman; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
This survey provides an in-depth analysis of existing research on the economic analysis of terrorism and counter-terrorist measures. First the existing evidence on the causes of terrorism is analyzed, then we consider the evidence of the consequences of terrorism and we demonstrate why it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003956028