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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989831
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
López, Ramón - 2010
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143683
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Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
Almenberg, Johan - 2011
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that exponential growth bias and standard measures of financial literacy are negatively correlated in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122964
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
candidates are possible – with little effect on market efficiency. Overall, the experimental results are explained by our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158120
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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
considers the evidence on return predictability, risk aversion and market efficiency. The paper then focuses on the theoretical … foundation of the EMH, and show that market efficiency could co-exit with heterogeneous beliefs and individual irrationality so … and the collective outcome could display significant departures from market efficiency. Market efficiency could be the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141228
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120128
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises : An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
Arando, Saioa - 2011
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124780
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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
Pencavel, John H. - 2012
efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099086
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Efficient Targeting in Childhood Interventions
Paul, Alexander - 2020
Many targeted childhood interventions such as the Perry Preschool Project select eligible children based on a risk score. The variables entering the risk score and their corresponding weights are usually chosen ad hoc and are unlikely to be optimal. This paper develops a simple economic model...
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