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Internationally operating firrns naturally face the decision whether or not to hedge the currencyrisk implied by foreign investments. In a recent paper, Bos, Mahieu and van Dijk (2000) evaluatethe returns from optimal and alternative currency hedging strategies, for a series of 7 models,using...
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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We consider a game played by a state sponsor of terrorism, a terrorist group, and the target of terrorist attacks. The …
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This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …
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We summarize the general combination approach by Billio et al. [2010]. In the combination model the weights follow logistic auto-regressive processes, change over time and their dynamics are possible driven by the past forecasting performances of the predictive densities. For illustrative...
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Theoretical and empirical studies of consumer scheduling behavior in commuting, and the associated valuation of time and schedule delays usually ignore that consumers have more exibility to adjust their schedule in the longer run than in the shorter run, implying that also these valuations may...
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We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of...
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Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we … analyze both the departure and the return from abroad for recent non-Dutch immigrants to The Netherlands. Results disclose … both models, for departure and returning, provides the probability that a specific migrant ends-up in The Netherlands. It …
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Sunday shop opening is deregulated to the municipal level in the Netherlands. Despite positive effects on economic …
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