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The main purpose of this paper is to study the economic behavior of migrants under uncertainty . We show , in …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the behavior and performance of migrants in the presence of an uncertain purchasing power parity.We show , in particular, that the impact of the probability of return remains ambiguous regarding both the savings and labor supply of the migrants , this...
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The Republic of Croatia belongs to the circle of transitional countries that has undertaken major efforts at the build-out of the information system. The development of telecommunications has been given a great importance because they represent one of the essential basis for the economical...
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We estimate the relationship between international youth and professional tennis rankings. We find no difference between the predictiveness of rankings from age 14 & Under versus age 16 & Under competitions. The most persistent predictor of professional success is beating older top ranked...
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The social utility to be optimized is a generalized form of a preference depending additively on consumption at the … different dates of the planning period. The optimization b rattrirted to a set of admissible growth paths defined by production-investment-consumption …
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In this paper I examine the implications of self-attribution bias on consumption and savings decisions. When self … changes in consumption and changes in income. No other factor on its own has been able to explain both of these empirical …
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We consider an industry with firms that produce a final good emitting pollution to different degree as a side effect. Pollution is regulated by a tradable quota system where some quotas may have been allocated at the outset, i.e. before the quota market is opened. We study how volatility in...
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arrangements in protecting household consumption from idiosyncratic income shocks. We focus on the effects of reported harvest … shocks and of estimated shocks to agricultural revenues on adult equivalent consumption. The full-insurance allocation is … unfavorable events stabilize their consumption level below the village aggregate level, irrespective of the level of realized …
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-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) setting. We first discuss how RI affects consumption smoothness and sensitivity, precautionary savings, asset pricing …
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commercialization of agricultural and food (agrifood) nanotechnology that may limit its full potential, including uncertainty about …
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