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US and European Household Debt and Credit Constraints
Crook, Jonathan; Hochguertel, Stefan - 2007
the determinants of household debt holding and to investigate whether or not credit constraints are important for … household debt holding. We extend the existing literature in important ways. First, we present comparative evidence for four … settings for debt incidence, debt outstanding and credit constraints. We also explore the implications for debt holding from …
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Entrepreneurial Moral Hazard in Income Insurance : Empirical Evidence from a Large Administrative Sample
Ejrnaes, Mette - 2008
We study risk behavior of Danish self-employed entrepreneurs, whose income risk may be driven by both exogenous factors and effort choice (moral hazard). Partial insurance is available through voluntary unemployment insurance (UI). Additional incentives to sign insurance contracts stem from a...
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Dynamics in clickthrough and conversion probabilities of paid search advertisements
Castelein, Anoek; Fok, Dennis; Paap, Richard - 2019
We develop a dynamic Bayesian model for clickthrough and conversion probabilities of paid search advertisements. These probabilities are subject to changes over time, due to e.g. changing consumer tastes or new product launches. Yet, there is little empirical research on these dynamics. Gaining...
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Wolf, Zoltan - 2009
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
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Forecasting Aggregate Productivity Using Information from Firm-Level Data
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2017
This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity to build times-series components that capture the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976846
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The Geography of R&D; Tobit Analysis and Bayesian Approach to Mapping R&D Activities for The Netherlands
Ouwersloot, Hans; Rietveld, Piet - 2000
Regions vary strongly according to the participation of firms in R&Dactivity.By linking data on R&D activity at thefirm level with GIS based data on economic, and other locationfeatures of zoneswe are able to investigate the impactof local factors on R&D involvement for various types of...
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Rounding of Arrival and Departure Times in Travel Surveys: An Interpretation in Terms of Scheduled Activities
Rietveld, Piet - 2001
In travel surveys most respondents apply rounding of departure andarrival times to multiples of 5, 15 and 30minutes: in the annual Dutch travel survey about 85-95 percent of allreported times are 'round' ones. We estimaterounding models for departure and arrival times. The model allows oneto...
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean; Pradhan, Menno - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...
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Be patient when measuring Hyperbolic Discounting: Stationarity, Time Consistency and Time Invariance in a Field Experiment
Janssens, Wendy; Kramer, Berber; Swart, Lisette - 2015
Most evidence of hyperbolic discounting is based on violations of either stationarity or time consistency as observed in choice experiments. These choice reversals may however also result from time-varying discount rates. Hyperbolic discounting is a plausible explanation for choice reversals...
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Savings Adequacy Uncertainty: Driver or Obstacle to Increased Pension Contributions?
van Schie, Ron J.G.; Donkers, Bas; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - 2012
Deciding how much to save for retirement is a difficult task that includes many uncertainties. In this paper, we use data from a representative Dutch household panel to study the impact of uncertainty regarding one's savings adequacy on retirement savings contributions and information search...
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