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Time delay and investment decisions : evidence from an experiment in Tanzania
Nikolov, Plamen - 2019
study, I examine how introducing a time delay into the execution of an investment plan influences individuals' risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118320
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Government debt as insurance against macroeconomic risk
Barbie, Martin; Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok - 2001
there an optimal maturity structure of public debt? Using a stochastic Diamond OLG model, we tackle these questions. We show … that there may be a welfareimproving role for a well-designed maturity structure of debt. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405711
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The timing of labor demand
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2008
fractions of work are performed at night and on weekends. -- Labor demand ; time use ; wage penalty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784408
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Choosing monetary sequences : theory and experimental evidence
Manzini, Paola (contributor); Mariotti, Marco (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of … association between 'irrational' choices. -- time preference ; time sequences ; negative discounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323162
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Why wait? : A century of education, marriage timing and gender roles
Iyigun, Murat; Lafortune, Jeanne - 2016
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose a multi-period frictionless matching model where educational and marriage decisions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450348
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Real time econometrics
Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001991290
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Labor market institutions, wages, and investment
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002239058
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Contracting with private information
Hagedorn, Marcus (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744053
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Unions and firms' investments : a unified view
Berton, Fabio; Dughera, Stefano; Ricci, Andrea - 2019
In this paper, we present a simple model in which a unionized and non-unionized firm optimally make investment decisions given their labor productivity. By allowing workers' organizations to have positive effects on labor effort, we find that the classic hold-up problem does not necessarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058483
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Time to eat : household production under increasing income inequality
Hamermesh, Daniel S. (contributor) - 2006
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating … them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the U.S. for 1985 and 2003, I examine how … income and time prices affect time and goods inputs into this household-produced commodity. Focusing on these two years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278946