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Do hurricanes have a cleansing effect? To answer this question, we test whether hurricanes lead to a reorganization of exports towards goods with higher comparative advantage. Using manufacturing exports disaggregated at the HS6 level over the period 1995-2005, we find that lower comparative...
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We introduce the game in cover function form, which is a bargaining game of sequential offers for endogenous overlapping coalitions. This extension of games in partition function form removes the restriction to disjoint coalitions. We discuss the existence of equilibria, and we develop an...
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It has long been argued that the legalization of same-sex marriage would have a negative impact on marriage. In this paper, I examine what happened to different-sex marriage in the Netherlands after the enactment of two laws: in 1998, a law that provided all couples with an institution almost...
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Data contamination and excessive correlations between regressors (multicollinearity) constitute a standard and major problem in econometrics. Two techniques enable solving these problems, in separate ways: the Gini regression for the former, and the PLS (partial least squares) regression for the...
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This article examines whether and how transboundary river water pollution spillover may affect resident’s Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a river water quality improvement project. Based on a CVM survey conducted in 20 cities located in the Xijiang river basin located in south China, our study...
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This paper estimates a reduced form model of the Canadian mortgage demand from 1971 to 2010. Three equations are estimated, one for the average real value of new mortgage loans originated, another one for the number of new loans and a third for the flow of real repayment of existing loans. The...
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Panel data, frequently employed in empirical investigations, provide estimators being strongly biased in the presence of atypical observations. The aim of this work is to propose a l1 Gini regression for panel data. It is shown that the fixed effects within-group Gini estimator is more robust...
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