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Risk, delegation, and project scope
Roider, Andreas - 2007
exogenous risk and delegation. That is, we show that only if exogenous risk is sufficiently large, the risk-neutral principal … may prefer to delegate authority over decisions to the risk-averse agent. Intuitively, for incentive reasons, the … principal may optimally want to allow the agent to reduce his risk exposure. Nevertheless, even endogenous risk may be higher …
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The gender wage gap as a function of educational degree choices in an occupationally segregated EU country
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
in the type of degree studied can explain an additional 8.4% of the male-female pay gap. Risk-augmented earnings …
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Heterogeneous life-cycle profiles, income risk and consumption inequality
Primiceri, Giorgio E.; van Rens, Thijs - 2007
Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfare depend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276396
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Risk, institutions and growth: Why England and not China?
Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011
We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions - even those providing the same level of insurance - can lead to …
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The Gendered Effects of Climate Change: Production Shocks and Labor Response in Agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
, we find that women's workdays fall by 11% more than men's when a drought occurs, driven by former's lack of …
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Perspectives on the Early Retirement Decisions of Farming Couples
Väre, Minna; Heshmati, Almas - 2004
In the past decade, the European agricultural sector has undergone rapid structural change. Part of that change is manifested in extended early retirement plans. As pensions play a crucial role in determining the characteristics the change, it is important to establish the factors determining...
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Regular versus Lump-Sum Payments in Union Contracts and Household Consumption
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Zizza, Roberta - 2017
We use information on monthly wage increases set by collective agreements in Italy and exploit their variation across sectors and over time in order to examine how household consumption responds to different types of positive income shocks (regular tranches versus lump-sum payments). Focusing on...
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Rationalizing Boundedly Rational Choice : Sequential Rationalizability and Rational Shortlist Methods
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco - 2004
A sequentially rationalizable choice function is a choice function which can be obtained by applying sequentially a fixed set of asymmetric binary relations (rationales). A Rational ShortlistMethod (RSM) is a choice function which is sequentially rationalizable by two rationales. These concepts...
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The Complexity of Economic Policy: I. Restricted Local Optima in Tax Policy Design
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002
Economists traditionally tackle normative problems by computing optimal policy, i.e. the one that maximizes a social welfare function. In practice, however, a succession of marginal changes to a limited number of policy instruments are implemented, until no further improvement is feasible. I...
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Testing bounded rationality against full rationality in job changing behavior
Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - 2007
In this paper we question the hypothesis of full rationality in the context of job changing behaviour, via simple econometric explorations on microdata drawn from WHIP (Worker Histories Italian Panel). Workers' performance is compared at the end of a three-year time window that starts when...
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