This paper theoretically investigates how community approval or disapprovalaects school attendance and child labor and how aggregate behavior of thecommunity feeds back towards the formation and persistence of an anti- (or pro-)schooling norm. The proposed community-model continues to take...

This paper develops a comprehensive endogenous growth framework to determinethe optimal mix of growth policies. The analysis is novel in that we captureimportant elements of the tax-transfer system and fully take into account transitionaldynamics in our numerical analysis. Currently, for...

We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relativewage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of jobsatisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positionswithin their firms are on average more...

Atheoretical regression trees (ART) are applied to detect changes in the mean of a stationarylong memory time series when location and number are unknown. It is shownthat the BIC, which is almost always used as a pruning method, does not operate well inthe long memory framework.[...]

This paper treats the problem of setting the inventory level of closed-loop owlines operating under the constant-work-in-process (CONWIP) protocol. We solve ahuge but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of a closed-loopow line in discrete time to determine a production...

’Nothing in business excites so much interest in the wider world as the pay of top executives.’ theEconomist wrote in a 2003 article titled ’Fat cats feeding - Executive pay’. Indeed, it seems thatthe dwindling heights to which CEO compensation has risen trigger stronger feelings than...

In den vergangenen Jahren haben Unternehmen durch betriebswirtschaftlicheOptimierungsprozesse vor allem in denproduzierenden Bereichen große Einsparpotenziale erschlossen.Deutsche Unternehmen sind international konkurrenzfähig- die Stabilität des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums in...

Within an internal model the Economic Scenario Generator (ESG) is an important component. In orderto get a regulatory approval of an internal model it is required that the implemented models (must be) passeda rigorous validation process, see Ceiops [2009].In this paper we focus on the particular...

Determining good parameter estimates in ESTAR models is known to be difficult. We showthat the phenomena of getting strongly biased estimators is a consequence of the so-calledidentication problem, the problem of properly distinguishing the transition function in relationto extreme parameter...

Iannaccone’s (1991) seminal paper assigns basic market principles to the market for religion. Ina competitive market with high religious diversity the level of overall religiosity should increase. TheSecularization Hypothesis suggests that the establishment of new churches casts doubt on the...