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asset market bubbles occur in all sessions, but global markets had significantly more extreme and longer duration valuation … bubbles. Additionally, subjects at the most suboptimal times-of-day held significantly more asset shares in their portfolios …
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We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to similarly-educated women living in similarly-expensive locations, completed fertility is positively correlated...
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We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading … are large, the private gains associated with trading asset bubbles may lead too many workers to become speculators …, thereby causing rational bubbles to lose their efficiency properties. Moreover, if speculation can be carried out by skilled …
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is as great as when training is absent. -- asset market experiment ; price bubbles ; common knowledge of rationality …
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Asset market bubbles and crashes are a major source of economic instability and inefficiency. Sometimes ascribed to …
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tradition, cultural values, social capital – factors that go beyond the standard explanation of economic theory – provide a more …
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Quality of life differences across areas can be measured by differences in "real wages" where real wages are computed as nominal wages adjusted for the cost of living. Computing cost of living differences involves several important issues, including how housing prices should be measured....
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Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
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Bubbles are recurrent events, which contribute to both macroeconomic and employment volatility. We introduce stochastic … bubbles in the standard search-and matching model of the labor market. The economy alternates between latent and bubbly states …, each being associated with a distinct solution for the market value of firms (respectively, stable or explosive). Bubbles …
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This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a neoclassical framework emphasizing rational choices of individuals and equilibrating forces of the...
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