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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262186
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
, and to offset their weaknesses by purchasing adequate goods on the market. Absent trade, people must allocate their time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262480
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature … and demand response in the power market and their relationships. It enhances demand response in the electricity market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307457
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Charity Donations and the Euro Introduction : Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Money Illusion
Kooreman, Peter; Faber, Riemer; Hofmans, Heleen - 2004
We compare the revenues of a house-to-house collection for a charity before and after the introduction of the euro in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262061
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262267
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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour
Lauer, Charlotte - 1999
This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262269
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Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F.; Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
that the euro triggered product but neither labour nor financial market reforms. Differently from previous studies, we find … that: (a) the Single Market has similar effects to the euro, and (b) sectoral heterogeneity appears less important in … and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322505
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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour
Lauer, Charlotte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behavior. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762303
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Labour Mobility - An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?
Puhani, Patrick A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233745