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Social interactions and labor market outcomes in cities

Zenou, Yves (contributor) - 2008

We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...

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India's calorie consumption puzzle: insights from the Stochastic Cost Frontier Analysis of calorie purchases

Hazarika, Gautam; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - 2020

Between the early 1970s and very nearly the present, Indians' per capita calorie consumption declined. This decline, perplexing in the face of rising per capita income when malnutrition is rampant, has been termed India's Calorie Consumption Puzzle. It has been partially attributed to a squeeze...

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Government deficit shocks and Okun's coefficient volatility : new insights on the austerity versus growth debate

Binh Thai Pham; Sala, Hector - 2019

This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...

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Volatility and growth : governments are key

Jetter, Michael - 2013

There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a negative indirect effect, operating through the insurance...

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

predictive content of the traditional theory of competitive supply. A number of key results in the deterministic theory follow as … predictive content of the classical theory of competitive firm behavior from its a priori roots in profit maximization, while … subsuming the traditional theory as a special case. -- Supply aggregation ; stochastic supply function ; stochastic consistency …

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The identification and economic content of ordered choice models with stochastic thresholds

Cunha, Flávio (contributor); Heckman, James J. (contributor) - 2007

This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...

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Testing for restricted stochastic dominance

Davidson, Russell (contributor); … - 2006

Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...

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Searching for rehabilitation in nonparametric regression models with exogenous treatment assignment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 2012

This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...

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Stochastic choice and consideration sets

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2012

We model a boundedly rational agent who suffers from limited attention. The agent considers each feasible alternative with a given (unobservable) probability, the attention parameter, and then chooses the alternative that maximises a preference relation within the set of considered alternatives....

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Stochastic complementarity

Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Ülkü, Levent - 2018

The Hicksian definition of complementarity and substitutability may not apply in contexts in which agents are not utility maximisers or where price or income variations, whether implicit or explicit, are not available. We look for tools to identify complementarity and substitutability satisfying...

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