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Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?

Ramos Morilla, Xavier; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2017

Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...

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Options to quit

Pfann, Gerard A. - 2000

This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker's decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of quitting. Implications of the model's closed form solution are consistent with the quit behavior of...

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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 …

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Impact of financial crises on dynamics of capital structure : evidence from Korean listed companies

Tsoy, Lyubov; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study examines the impact of 1997 Asian and 2008 Global financial crises on the capital structure of Korean listed companies. Using a data set covering 1,159 Korean listed non-financial firms from 10 industrial sectors over period 1985-2015, the pattern of firms' capital structure before...

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural … and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad ….S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

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Labor and the market value of the firm

Merz, Monika (contributor); Yashiv, Eran (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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How does the economic uncertainty affect asset prices under normal and financial distress times?

Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2022

By using a nonlinear VAR model, we investigate whether the response of the US stock and housing markets to uncertainty shocks depends on financial conditions. Our model allows us to change the response of the US financial markets to volatility shocks in periods of normal and financial distress....

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Higher-order beliefs and risky asset holdings

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Yin, Xiao - 2024

We combine a customized survey and randomized controlled trial (RCT) to study the effect of higher-order beliefs on U.S. retail investors' portfolio allocations. We find that investors' higher-order beliefs about stock market returns are correlated with but distinct from their first-order...

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Excess leverage and productivity growth in emerging economies : is there a threshold effect?

Coricelli, Fabrizio; Driffield, Nigel L.; Pal, Sarmistha; … - 2010

The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...

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The interdependence of R&D activity and debt financing of young firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - 2011

We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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