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Business, bankruptcy, and beliefs : the financial demise of NBA stars
Henry, Ruby - 2013
to private equity schemes are a common factor in observed financial insolvency. Considering the behavioral attribute of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717804
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Equilibrium wage and employment dynamics in a model of wage posting without commitment
Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Mortensen, Dale - 2011
A rich but tractable variant of the Burdett-Mortensen model of wage setting behavior is formulated and a dynamic market equilibrium solution to the model is defined and characterized. In the model, firms cannot commit to wage contracts. Instead, the Markov perfect equilibrium to the wage setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009312108
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Hiring freeze and bankruptcy in unemployment dynamics
Garibaldi, Pietro (contributor) - 2006
This paper proposes a matching model that distinguishes between job creation by existing firms and job creation by firm entrants. The paper argues that vacancy posting and job destruction on the extensive margin, i.e. from firms that enter and exit the labour market, represents a viable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359295
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Tenancy by the entirety and the value of wealth insurance for entrepreneurs
Traczynski, Jeffrey - 2020
This paper explores the willingness of entrepreneurs to pay for wealth insurance to protect personal assets in case of business failure and the impact of this strategy on small business operation decisions. I show that antidiscrimination laws allow married firm owners in half of U.S. states to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203405
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Badge of honor or scarlet letter? : unpacking investors' judgment of entrepreneurs' past failure
Zunino, Diego; Praag, Mirjam van; Dushnitsky, Gary - 2017
Research shows that most ventures fail, yet it has devoted limited attention to the consequences of entrepreneurs' past failure for investors' decisions. Our motivating insight is that failure can be due to bad luck, lack of skill or both. Therefore, failure conveys ambiguous information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732046
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Labor turnover costs, workers' heterogeneity, and optimal monetary policy
Faia, Ester; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Merkl, Christian - 2009
We study the design of optimal monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with labor turnover costs in which wages are set according to a right to manage bargaining where the firms' counterpart is given by currently employed workers. Our model captures well the salient features of European labor...
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Inflation persistence and the Phillips curve revisited
Karanassou, Marika (contributor);  … - 2007
A major criticism against staggered nominal contracts is that they give rise to the so called "persistency puzzle" - although they generate price inertia, they cannot account for the stylised fact of inflation persistence. It is thus commonly asserted that, in the context of the new Phillips...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003531676
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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …
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On reputation : a microfoundation of contract enforcement and price rigidity
Fehr, Ernst (contributor); Brown, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
We study the impact of reputational incentives in markets characterized by moral hazard problems. Social preferences have been shown to enhance contract enforcement in these markets, while at the same time generating considerable wage and price rigidity. Reputation powerfully amplifies the...
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Asymmetric labor market institutions in the EMU and the volatility of inflation and unemployment differentials
Abbritti, Mirko; Müller, Andreas - 2012
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic competition and sticky prices, hiring frictions and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536516