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Partisan impacts on the economy : evidence from prediction markets and close elections

Snowberg, Erik (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor); … - 2006

Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...

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Not so lucky any more : CEO compensation in financially distressed firms

Kang, Qiang (contributor); Mitnik, Oscar A. (contributor) - 2008

There is a debate on whether executive pay reflects rent extraction due to "managerial power" or is the result of arms-length bargaining in a principal-agent framework. In this paper we offer a test of the managerial power hypothesis by empirically examining the CEO compensation of U.S. public...

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Reconciling trends in U.S. male earnings volatility : results from survey and administrative data

Moffitt, Robert A.; Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hokayem, … - 2022

There is a large literature on earnings and income volatility in labor economics, household finance, and macroeconomics …. One strand of that literature has studied whether individual earnings volatility has risen or fallen in the U.S. over the … data. Using common specifications, measures of volatility, and other treatments of the data, four of the six data series …

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Wage rigidity and job creation

Häfke, Christian (contributor); Sonntag, Marcus (contributor) - 2008

Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume … jobs. This form of wage rigidity does not affect job creation and thus cannot explain the unemployment volatility puzzle …

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Modelling heterogeneity and dynamics in the volatility of individual wages

Hospido, Laura - 2010

This paper presents a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive model with multiple individual fixed effects is proposed. The expression for a modified likelihood...

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The vanishing procyclicality of labor productivity

Galí, Jordi; Rens, Thijs van - 2010

vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real … observed decline in output volatility. -- labor hoarding ; labor market frictions ; wage rigidities ; effort choice …

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House price volatility and the housing ladder

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard W.; Oldfield, Zoe͏̈; … - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the lifecycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...