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We investigate the importance of aggregate and consumer-specific or idiosyncratic labour income risk for aggregate consumption changes in the US over the period 1952-2001. Theoretically, the effect of labour income risk on consumption changes is decomposed into an aggregate and into an...
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incomplete markets model and find that advance information reduces households' income forecast errors by 15%. Our estimation …
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violations of the strong validity assumption affect the estimation results. We show that, in case of moderate direct effects of …
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Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we study the consequences of firm consolidation for workers. For workers at acquired firms, takeovers are associated with a 8.5% drop in employment at the consolidated firm and a 2.6% drop in total labor income. These effects are persistent...
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This paper studies asymmetric price responses of individual firms, via daily retail prices of almost all gasoline … the stations respond asymmetrically to changes in the spot market price. Hence, asymmetric pricing is not a feature of the …
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in the daily retail price for gasoline (taxes excluded) for the period 1996-2004 taking care of volatility clustering by … estimating an EGARCH model. It turns out the volatility process is asymmetrical: an unexpected increase in the producer price has … a larger effect on the variance of the producer price than an unexpected decrease. We do not find strong evidence for …
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