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Dynamics of yardstick regulation : historical cost data and the ratchet effect ; conference paper
Meya, Johannes - 2013 - First version
Real life applications of Yardstick Regulation frequently refer to historical cost data. While Yardstick Regulation cuts the link between firms own costs and prices firms may charge in a static setting, it does not in a dynamic setting where historical cost data is used. A firm can influence the...
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Saving and consumption when children move out : conference paper
Rottke, Simon; Klos, Alexander - 2013
Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show that household consumption drops and saving rises significantly within four years after a child moves out of a household. Per capita consumption of parents is approximately leveled up to that of childless peers after all children are gone....
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Consumption-savings decisions under upward-looking comparisons : conference paper
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Schmid, Kai D. - 2014
We demonstrate that upward-looking comparisons induce "keeping up with the richer Joneses"-behavior. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate the effect of reference consumption, defined as the consumption level of all households who are perceived to be richer, on household...
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Income distribution and current account imbalances : conference paper
Belabed, Christian A.; Theobald, Thomas - 2014
We develop a three-country, stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model to study the effects of changes in both personal and functional income distribution on national current account balances. Each country has a household sector and a non-household (corporate) sector. The household sector is...
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The consumption response to labour income changes
Boudt, Kris; Schoors, Koen; Van Den Heuvel, Milan; … - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022
We develop an income shock classification taxonomy that classifies income changes into 9 categories based on the magnitude, direction and permamency of the income change. Using 01/2017 - 06/2022 bank transaction data of Belgian employees and workers, we apply this classification on labour income...
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Workshop Organisation und Ordnung der japanischen Wirtschaft V; Themenschwerpunkt : Deutschlandjahr in Japan - eine Zwischenbilanz
Pascha, Werner (contributor); Storz, Cornelia (contributor) - 2006
die signaling-Funktionen ab. Roman Bartnik, ebenfalls Duisburg-Essen, behandelt 'Außenhandel, Signaling und der deutsche … socio-economic analysis of the German Year, stressing public good-properties and signaling. Roman Bartnik, also from the … University of Duisburg-Essen, contributes a paper on 'Foreign trade, signaling, and the German pavilion - Expo 2005 in Japan from …
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Dynamic coordination via organizational routines : conference paper
Blume, Andreas; Franco, April Mitchell; Heidhues, Paul - 2013 - Preliminary version
We investigate dynamic coordination among members of a problem-solving team who receive private signals about which of their actions are required for a (static) coordinated solution and who have repeated opportunities to explore different action combinations. In this environment ordinal...
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Bayesian persuasion by stress test disclosure : conference pape
Gick, Wolfgang; Pausch, Thilo - 2013
This paper argues that stress tests encompassing the entire banking sector (macro stress tests) can be designed to improve welfare. We develop a multi-receiver framework of Bayesian persuasion to show that a banking supervisor can create value when he commits to disclose the stress-testing...
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Bubble thy neighbor : portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls ; conference paper
Forbes, Kristin; Fratzscher, Marcel; Kostka, Thomas; … - 2013
We use changes in Brazil s tax on capital inflows from 2006 to 2011 to test for direct portfolio effects and externalities from capital controls on investor portfolios. The analysis is structured based on information from investor interviews. We find that an increase in Brazil s tax on foreign...
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