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A microfoundation of predator-prey dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2003
acquired by the representative organism in the short term determines the positive or negative population growth. Moving short …
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Lower oil prices and the U.S. economy : is this time different?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - 2017
hence in the U.S. price of gasoline after June 2014. Our analysis suggests that this decline produced a cumulative stimulus … investment and an additional stimulus of 0.04 percentage points reflecting a shrinking petroleum trade deficit. This stimulating … effect, however, has been largely offset by a large reduction in real investment by the oil sector. Hence, the net stimulus …
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Is the discretionary income effect of oil price shocks a hoax?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
The transmission of oil price shocks has been a question of central interest in macroeconomics since the 1970s. There has been renewed interest in this question after the large and persistent fall in the real price of oil in 2014-16. In the context of this debate, Ramey (2017) makes the striking...
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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
The theoretical literature on the economics of fiscal federalism has identified several potential effects of government decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision of public services. However,...
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Hourly wages in crowdworking : a meta-analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Vrankar, Daniel - 2022
In the past decade, crowdworking on online labor market platforms has become the main source of income for a growing number of people worldwide. This development has led to increasing political and scientific interest in the wages that people can earn on such platforms. In this article, we...
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Meta-analysis of inequality aversion estimates
Nunnari, Salvatore; Pozzi, Maximilian Joseph - 2022
We conduct an interdisciplinary meta-analysis to aggregate the knowledge from empirical estimates of inequality aversion reported from 1999 to 2022. In particular, we examine 85 estimates of disadvantageous inequality aversion (or envy) and advantageous inequality aversion (or guilt) from 26...
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The performance of socially responsible investments : a meta-analysis
Hornuf, Lars; Yüksel, Gülistan - 2022
In this article, we use a meta-analysis to examine the performance of socially responsible investing (SRI). After a thorough literature search, we review 153 empirical studies containing 1,047 observations of SRI performance. We find that, on average, SRI neither outperforms nor underperforms...
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Meta-analysis of empirical estimates of loss-aversion
Brown, Alexander L.; Imai, Taisuke; Vieider, Ferdinand M.; … - 2021
Loss aversion is one of the most widely used concepts in behavioral economics. We conduct a large-scale interdisciplinary meta-analysis, to systematically accumulate knowledge from numerous empirical estimates of the loss aversion coefficient reported during the past couple of decades. We...
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2020
Tax compliance nudges are used increasingly by governments because of their perceived cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment effect estimates from 45 randomized controlled trials, and synthesize this rapidly growing literature using meta-analytical...
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A Jackknife Model Averaging analysis of RMB misalignment estimates
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Wang, Wenhao - 2019
We adopt the Jackknife Model Averaging (JMA) technique to conduct a meta-regression analysis of 925 renminbi (RMB) misalignment estimates generated by 69 studies. The JMA method accounts for model selection and sampling uncertainties, and allows for non-nested model specifications and...
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