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This paper re-examines the effects of inflation and exchange rate uncertainty on real economic activity. The existent … literature has treated both issues as separate subject matters. It has emphasized either the issue of inflation uncertainty or … exchange rate uncertainty on economic growth or on different measures of economic activity. This paper attempts dealing with …
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This paper focuses on belief distortion in the context of lying decisions. We employ a twostage variant of the "dice under the cup" paradigm, in which subjects' beliefs are elicited in stage 1 before performing the dice task in stage 2. In stage 1, we elicit the subjects' beliefs about (i)...
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of religious behaviour towards Theoi in the laboratory. The theory we test is that, when faced with uncertainty …, individuals attempt to engage in a reciprocal contract with the source of uncertainty by sacrificing towards it. In our … uncertainty is lower. The findings imply that under circumstances of high uncertainty people are willing to sacrifice large …
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This paper elaborates on the link between financial market volatility and real economic activity. Using monthly data for Germany from 1968 to 1998, we specify GARCH models to capture the variability of stock market prices, of the real exchange rate, and of a long-term and of a short-term rate of...
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The paper offers a new theoretical framework to examine the role of intermediaries between creators and potential users of new inventions. Using a model of universityindustry technology transfer, we demonstrate that technology transfer offices can provide an opportunity to economize on a...
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Uncertainty faced by individual firms appears to be heterogeneous. In this paper, I construct new empirical measures of … firm-level uncertainty using data from the I/B/E/S and Compustat. These new measures reveal persistent differences in the … degree of uncertainty facing individual firms not reflected by existing measures. Consistent with existing measures, I find …
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uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Uncertainty is transformed into a risk-premium, damage-correction, region …. This risk premium quantifies what society would be willing to pay to insure against the uncertainty of the damages, and it …
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This paper focuses on belief distortion in the context of lying decisions. We employ a twostage variant of the "dice under the cup" paradigm, in which subjects' beliefs are elicited in stage 1 before performing the dice task in stage 2. In stage 1, we elicit the subjects' beliefs about (i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389679
This paper employs a stochastic endogenous growth model with productive government expenditure to analyze the macroeconomic effects of income taxation. We demonstrate that in the presence of capital and income risk the impact of taxation on consumption choice as well as on economic growth is...
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with congestion. It is shown that the optimal amount of governmental input diminishes with uncertainty and that the optimal …
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