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Trading while sleepy? : circadian mismatch and excess volatility in a global experimental asset market
Dickinson, David L.; Chaudhuri, Ananish; … - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731909
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Entrepreneurship, self-employment and business data : an introduction to several large, nationally-representative datasets
Fairlie, Robert W.; Robb, Alicia M. - 2009
Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824288
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Does local business ownership insulate cities from economic shocks?
Kolko, Jed; Neumark, David - 2009
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses - namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate cities from adverse economic shocks. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898087
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012887281
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Rising tuition and enrollment in public higher education
Hemelt, Steven W. (contributor);  … - 2008
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2007 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777880
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The diffusion of information technology and the increased propensity of teams to transcend institutional and national borders
Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon G.; … - 2011
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310833
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759253
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936729
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779865
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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...
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