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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms

Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020

It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...

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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes

Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020

emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …

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Subjective well-being and public policy

Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2017

Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare on an individual as well as on a societal level. These determinants might not to be easily...

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Econometric explorations on bounded rationality : the case of job changing behavior

Contini, Bruno (contributor); Morini, Matteo (contributor) - 2007

"In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behavior, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). A rational outcome of the job matching process implies a positive tradeoff between future...

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Infinite dimensional VARs and factor models

Chudik, Alexander (contributor); … - 2007

This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the 'curse of dimensionality' in the case of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VAR are proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends to infinity. It is...

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Does immigration boost per capita income?

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Hiller, Sanne; Sala, Davide - In: Economics letters 107 (2010) 2, pp. 177-179

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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications

Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...

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Poolability and the finance-growth nexus : a cautionary note

Schiavo, Stefano; Vaona, Andrea - In: Economics letters 98 (2008) 2, pp. 144-147

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Deflation and recession : finding the empirical link

Guerrero, Federico; Parker, Elliott - In: Economics letters 93 (2006) 1, pp. 12-17

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Nonhomotheticity and bilateral trade : evidence and a quantitative explanation

Fieler, Ana Cecília - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 79 (2011) 4, pp. 1069-1101

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