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Multi-store competition : market segmentation or interlacing?

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Karamychev, Vladimir A.; … - 2004

This paper develops a model for multi-store competition between firms. Using thefact that different firms have different outlets and produce horizontally differentiated goods, we obtain a pure strategy equilibrium where firms choose a different location for each outlet and firms' locations are...

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The price of a price : on the crowding out of social norms

Janssen, Maarten C. W.; Mendys-Kamphorst, Ewa - 2001

There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence thatproviding financial incentives to agents to performcertain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other typesof motivations to undertake these actions.We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for...

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Social network sites, individual social capital and happiness

Arampatzi, Efstratia; Burger, Martijn J.; Novik, Natallia A. - 2016

Can online social contacts replace the importance of real-life social connections in our pursuit of happiness? With the … examines the effect of SNS use on happiness for different subgroups of young adults. More specifically, we examine whether the … effect of SNSs on happiness is moderated by individual social capital, as measured in terms of frequency of social contacts …

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Compensatory inter vivos gifts

Hochgürtel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - 2007

This discussion paper led to a publication in href=http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jae.1071/fullJournal of Applied Econometrics, 24(6), 993-1023.Parents’ transfer motives are important for understanding, e.g., macroeconomics, income (re)distribution, savings, and public finance....

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Early life circumstances and life cycle labor market outcomes

Flores, Manuel; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Kalwij, Adriaan S. - 2015

We investigate how early life circumstances - childhood health and socioeconomic status (SES) - are associated with labor market outcomes over an individualś entire life cycle. A life cycle approach provides insights not only into which labor market outcomes are associated with adverse...

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Growth and risk : methodology and micro evidence

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem; Kinsey, Bill H. - 2006 - Rev.

There has been a revival of interest in the effect of risk on economic growth. We quantify both ex ante and ex post effects of risk using a stochastic version of the Ramsey model. We develop a simulation-based econometric methodology which allows us to estimate the model in the structural form...

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Efficient allocation of land between productive use and recreational use : an application to Galician case

Giménez, Eduardo L.; González Gómez, Manuel - 2001

In this paper the efficient allocation of natural recreational areasis analysed. Natural recreational areas have the features of publicgoods. We present the efficient allocation of this non-excludablepublic good in a rational general equilibrium model withheterogeneous agents. This allows us to...

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Till debt do us part : strategic divorces and a test of moral hazard

Kim, Yeorim; Mastrogiacomo, Mauro; Hochgürtel, Stefan; … - 2022

We test whether households that face prospective home equity losses during a house price downturn use divorce to shed debt. We study the Dutch context, where qualifying homeowners can buy into a mortgage guarantee scheme that insures the lender against borrower default and transfers the risk to...

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The impact of family background on educational attainment in Dutch birth cohorts 1966-1995

Atav, Tilbe; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2023

We analyse the evolving impact of family background on educational attainment using administrative data on 2,417,460 individuals from 1,341,403 families born in the Netherlands between 1966 and 1995. Comparisons between parents and their children reveal intergenerational elasticities between...

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Interlocking boards and firm performance : evidence from a new panel database

Non, Mariëlle C.; Franses, Philip Hans - 2007

An interlock between two firms occurs if the firms share one or more directors in their boards of directors. We explore the effect of interlocks on firm performance for 101 large Dutch firms using a large and new panel database. We use five different performance measures, and for each...

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