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Detecting mortgage delinquencies
Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312194
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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border
Gathmann, Christina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001896413
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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions
Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023
This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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Price and saliency in health care: when can targeted nudges change behaviors?
Walker, Brigham - 2020
This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314696
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Restaurant prices and the minimum wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - 2009
the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, we use a unique dataset of individual … price quotes collected to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France and we estimate a price rigidity model based on a … through to retail prices. -- Price stickiness ; minimum wage ; inflation ; restaurant prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825142
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Lumpy price adjustments : a microeconometric analysis
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Fuss, Catherine; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2007
the degree of price rigidity that is inherent to the price setting mechanism (intrinsic) and that which is due to the … price's driving variables (extrinsic). Using two data sets consisting of a large fraction of the price quotes used to … compute the Belgian and French CPI, we are able to assess the role of intrinsic and extrinsic price stickiness in explaining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003595347
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The changing returns to crime : do criminals respond to prices?
Draca, Mirko; Koutmeridis, Theodore; Machin, Stephen - 2015
this issue by estimating crime-price elasticities from detailed data on criminal incidents in London between 2002 and 2012 … incidents and find evidence of significant positive price elasticities. We then study a particular group of crimes that have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283155
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Smoking bans, cigarette prices and life satisfaction
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2013
The consequences of tobacco control policies for individual welfare are difficult to assess. We therefore evaluate the impact of smoking bans and cigarette prices on subjective well-being by analyzing data for 40 European countries and regions between 1990 and 2011. We exploit the staggered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699319
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How do drug prices respond to a change from external to internal reference pricing? : evidence from a Danish regulatory reform
Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan J. - 2015
analyze three therapeutic classes with different treatment durations and show that the reform led to substantial price … decreases for our lifelong treatment and to less substantial price reductions for our medium duration treatment while we do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467805
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"Buy-It-Now" or "Sell-It-Now" auctions : effects of changing bargaining power in sequential trading mechanisms
Grebe, Tim; Ivanova-Stenzel, Radosveta; Kröger, Sabine - 2015
at a fixed price before an auction. In the "Buy-It-Now" format, the seller has the bargaining power and offers a price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407823