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Trade and Security, I: Anarchy
Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, S.J. Douglas - 1997
Market exchange is subject to an endogenously-determined level of predation which impedes specialization and gains from trade. Utility-maximizing agents opt between careers in specialized production and careers in predation. Three types of equilibria may emerge, autarky (with no predation and no...
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Measuring Inequality in CIS Countries: Theory and Empirics
Ibragimov, Rustam; Ibragimov, Marat; Khamidov, Rufat - 2010
Distributions of many variables of interest in developed economic and financial markets, including income and wealth, exhibit heavy tails as in the case of Pareto or power laws. Many commonly used income and wealth inequality measures are very sensitive to extremes and outliers generated by...
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Environmentally Conscious Marketing
Nagy, Szabolcs - 2004
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Milton Friedman's contributions to macroeconomics and teir Influence
Laidler, David - 2012
consumption function and the demand for money, not to mention monetary history, which helped to undermine the post World War 2 …
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The reaction of consumer spending and debt to tax rebates: Evidence from consumer credit data
Agarwal, Sumit; Liu, Chunlin; Souleles, Nicholas S. - 2007
We use a new panel dataset of credit card accounts to analyze how consumers responded to the 2001 federal income tax rebates. We estimate the monthly response of credit card payments, spending, and debt, exploiting the unique, randomized timing of the rebate disbursement. We find that on average...
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Spending responses to state sales tax holidays
Agarwal, Sumit; McGranahan, Leslie - 2012
encourage consumption, effecting over 100 million consumers. We use a unique dataset of credit cards transaction to study the …
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Why do banks reward their customers to use their credit cards?
Agarwal, Sumit; Chakravorti, Sujit; Lunn, Anna - 2010
Using a unique administrative level dataset from a large and diverse U.S. financial institution, we test the impact of rewards on credit card spending and debt. Specifically, we study the impact of cash-back rewards on individuals before and during their enrollment in the program. We find that...
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Green work-life balance: A new perspective for green HRM
Muster, Viola; Schrader, Ulf - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 25 (2011) 2, pp. 140-156
This paper proposes that Green HRM can meet its full potential only by considering employees in their twofold role as producers and consumers. Employees learn different kinds of behaviour not exclusively at the workplace, but also in private life. Since reciprocal interactions between working...
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Dynamics and drivers of consumption and multidimensional poverty: Evidence from rural Ethiopia
Brück, Tilman; Kebede, Sindu Workneh - 2013
) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of …, we find that household size matters in consumption poverty while we do not find significant effects on multidimensional … poverty. Amongst the shocks, drought shock is found to affect consumption poverty but not multidimensional poverty. This …
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Consumption inequality and partial insurance
Blundell, Richard W.; Pistaferri, Luigi; Preston, Ian - 2004
This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the … degree of insurance to income shocks. It combines panel data on income from the PSID with consumption data from repeated CEX … found to play an important role in insuring permanent shocks. Adding durable expenditures to the consumption measure …
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