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Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Wogrolly, Axel; Zimpelmann, … - 2022

health disparities, health behaviors, dynamic demand, side effects, structural models, HIV/AIDSaThis paper analyzes the stability and distribution of ambiguity attitudes using a broad population sample. Using high-powered incentives, we collected six waves of data on ambiguity attitudes about...

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League-table incentives and price bubbles in experimental asset markets

Cheung, Stephen L.; Coleman, Andrew - 2011

We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant's portfolio is periodically evaluated at market value and ranked in a league table according to short-term paper returns. Those who rank highly attract...

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Do women manage smaller funds?

Hübler, Olaf; Menkhoff, Lukas - 2010

Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists only for managers of smaller funds, i.e. at the lower end of the hierarchy, as quantile...

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Differences in euro-area household finances and their relevance for monetary-policy transmission

Hintermaier, Thomas; Koeniger, Winfried - 2019

prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life …

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The effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on wage behaviour

Lauer, Charlotte - 1999

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

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Labour mobility : an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? ; empirical evidence for Western Germany, France, and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

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Cross-national differences in wealth portfolios at the intensive margin : is there a role for policy?

Doorley, Karina; Sierminska, Eva - 2014

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at...

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The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018

Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data … (NGHS). We find evidence of significant spatial autocorrelation. Productivity of non-farm enterprises is widely dispersed … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community …

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Residential choices of young Americans

Patacchini, Eleonora; Arduini, Tiziano - 2016

Using detailed data on a cohort of young Americans who were in their late twenties and early thirties in 2008, we investigate the importance of forces different from economic incentives in nest-leaving decisions. We apply recent methods from social network econometrics to identify the importance...

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