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consumption-saving model with labor income risk and incomplete markets to relate income dynamics to consumption and welfare, and … income process. The empirical application of our framework using data on individual incomes from Mexico provides striking …) welfare-neutral. A smaller part of measured income mobility is due to either welfare-reducing income risk or welfare …
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endogenous firing as well as a short-time work decision. In recessions, short-time work reduces the unemployment risk of workers …
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A sizable literature has concluded that remittances impact the expenditure patterns of households. We explore how the uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households, while accounting for the level of transfers from...
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We investigate financial experts' beliefs about climate risk pricing and analyze how those beliefs influence stock …
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Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising … States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration …
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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …
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of reducing concentration in two markets in Mexico that are known for their high level of concentration: mobile …
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although risk can be measured, uncertainty cannot be measured. Even though risk can be measured, a simple symmetric measure … attempt at "measuring" risk or (fundamental) uncertainty is flawed. …
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) we vary three payoff indices. Indices of risk and temptation capture the unilateral incentives to defect against … reduces cooperation. In neither study, nor in either subject pool of our second study, do we find a significant effect of risk. …
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