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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
How sensitive is long-run individual well-being to environmental conditions early in life? This paper examines the effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian adults born between 1953 and 1974. We link historical...
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Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons
Diewert, W. Erwin - 2010
The paper considers the problem of choosing a multilateral system of index numbers in order to make aggregate price and quantity comparisons between many countries and regions. The problems involved in choosing functional forms in order to make these comparisons are both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137597
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Partial Adjustment Without Apology
King, Robert G. - 2012
Many kinds of economic behavior appear to be governed by discrete and occasional individual choices. Despite this, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment problem, we show how discrete and occasional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115532
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On the Connections between Intertemporal and Intra-Temporal Trades
Ju, Jiandong - 2011
This paper develops a new theory of international economics by introducing Heckscher-Ohlin features of intra-temporal trade into an intertemporal trade approach of current account. To do so, we consider a dynamic general equilibrium model with tradable sectors of different factor intensities,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119039
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Are There Thresholds of Current Account Adjustment in the G7?
Clarida, Richard - 2012
We find evidence of threshold behavior in current account adjustment for the G7 countries, such that the dynamics of adjustment towards equilibrium depend upon whether the current-account/ net-output ratio breaches estimated, country specific current account surplus or deficit thresholds. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098848
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Gradual Portfolio Adjustment : Implications for Global Equity Portfolios and Returns
Bacchetta, Philippe - 2017
Modern open economy macro models assume the continuous adjustment of international portfolio allocation. We introduce gradual portfolio adjustment into a global equity market model. Our approach differs from related literature in two key dimensions. First, the time interval between portfolio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957370
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The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860 : Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment
Becuwe, Stéphane - 2018
The Cobden-Chevalier treaty of 1860 eliminated many French import prohibitions and lowered tariffs between France and Britain. Policy change was largely unexpected and unusually free from direct lobbying. A series of commercial treaties with other nations followed because of the use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909122
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Do You Know that I Know that You Know...? Higher-Order Beliefs in Survey Data
Coibion, Olivier - 2018
We implement a new survey of firms, focusing on their higher-order macroeconomic expectations. The survey provides a novel set of stylized facts regarding the relationship between first-order and higher-order expectations of economic agents, including how they adjust their beliefs in response to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911492
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Adaptation and the Boundary of Multinational Firms
Costinot, Arnaud - 2010
integration is to facilitate adaptation in a world where uncertainty is resolved over time. This paper offers the first empirical … analysis of the impact of adaptation on the boundary of multinational firms. To do so, we first develop a ranking of sectors in … demonstrate that, in line with adaptation theories of the firm, the share of intrafirm trade tends to be higher in less routine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757958
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Climate Change Adaptation : Lessons from Urban Economics
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
In an urbanizing world economy featuring thousands of cities, households and firms have strong incentives to make locational investments and self protection choices to reduce their exposure to new climate change induced risks. This pursuit of self interest reduces the costs imposed by climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043276