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Buyer Strategizing in Continuously Recreated Markets : Loyalty, Deviance and Defection
Curchod, Corentin - 2011
This article examines the daily strategizing of buyers, taking the dyad to be the elementary unit of analysis in market dynamics. The ideas are revisited that dyadic market relationships converge towards loyalty (Kirman and Vriend), and that markets tend towards social or institutional...
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Corporate Management of Highly Dynamic Risks : Evidence from the Demand for Terrorism Insurance in Germany
Thomann, Christian J. - 2011
This paper investigates a corporation's risk management response to highly dynamic risks. Using a unique data set on the German terrorist insurance market, the paper tests whether corporate risk managers have a clear understanding of the probability distribution of highly dynamic risks or if...
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It's About Time : Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound …
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Subjective Return Expectations, Information and Stock Market Participation : Evidence from France
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
Recent research has separately uncovered that stock ownership strongly correlates with both expectations and realizations of stock market returns, as well as with measures of financial literacy, ability or trust. This paper reconciles all, and reports new findings from a unique survey containing...
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Financial Literacy and Financial Planning in France
Arrondel, Luc - 2014
How are people financially literate in France? We address this question using the PATER survey and following the Lusardi and Mitchell (2011c) approach. We find that some subpopulations are less financially literate than others: women, young and old people as well as less-educated people are more...
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Exposure to Immigration and Admission Preferences : Evidence From France
Clayton, Katherine; Ferwerda, Jeremy; Horiuchi, Yusaku - 2021
To what extent does exposure to immigration condition the types of immigrants citizens are willing to admit? Extending the conjoint approach adopted by Hainmueller and Hopkins (2015), this study investigates whether the admission preferences of French natives vary based on personal exposure to...
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Higher education reform in France. A permanent urgency logic
Jourdon, Philippe - In: Entelequia. Revista Interdisciplinar (2009) 10, pp. 125-165
The world-wide move of Reform of Universities encounters a special echo in France, where there are some who reproach its challenging the French social model. This latter is based on a strict separation between the business world and the access system to basic rights, that are symbolized by the...
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An Equilibrium Search Model of the French Dual Market for Medical Services
Besancenot, Damien - 2017
sector 2 where physicians can freely choose fees. Patients who undergo a sequential search process for the best medical offer …
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Knowledge-Based Evolutions and the Europeanization of Higher Education - Where Does France Stand?
Pilkington, Marc - 2016
In this paper, we examine the salient characteristics of the French higher education system in the light of its recent evolution and in the context of overwhelming Europeanization trends. In spite of major weaknesses that still hinder the performance of French universities, we show that,...
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Equilibrium Search with Continuous Productivity Dispersion : Theory and Non-Parametric Estimation
Bontemps, Christian; Robin, Jean-Marc; van den Berg, … - 1999
In this paper we theoretically and empirically analyze equilibrium search models of the labor market. The Burdett …-Mortensen equilibrium search model is generalized by allowing for continuous distributions of firm productivity types within a given labor … panel dataset of firms. The results are informative on the degree to which firms exploit search frictions …
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