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Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (2010) 2-3, pp. 413-420

We present a model in which individuals' preferences are defined over their consumption, transfers to offspring, and social status associated with income. We show that a separating equilibrium exists where individuals' expenditure on conspicuous consumption is a signal for their unobserved...

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Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital and Poverty

Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income on consumption of goods that appear to be useless in alleviating poverty, while saving at very low rates and neglecting investment in health and education. Such consumption patterns seem to be related to the persistence of...

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Reimagining Entrepreneurship : Design Culture Exposure as a Positive Mediator for Entrepreneurial Capacity

Edgell, Robert - 2018

A diverse body of literature confirms the need to better understand the antecedents of national entrepreneurial capacity, especially for developing nations or similar de-industrializing rust belt regions within developed nations. The research intention was to test our theory that exposure to...

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Conspicuous Consumption, Human Capital, and Poverty

Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - 2009

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Saving Rates and Poverty : The Role of Conspicuous Consumption and Human Capital

Moav, Omer - 2010

Poor families around the world spend a large fraction of their income consuming goods that do not appear to alleviate poverty, while saving at low rates. We suggest that individuals care about economic status and hence we interpret this behavior as conspicuous consumption that is intended to...

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Trade shocks from BRIC to South Africa: A global VAR analysis

Çakır, Mustafa Yavuz; Kabundi, Alain - In: Economic Modelling 32 (2013) C, pp. 190-202

This paper studies the trade linkages between South Africa and the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. We apply a global vector autoregressive model (global VAR) to investigate the degree of trade linkages and shock transmission between South Africa and the BRIC countries over the...

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Modelling Trade Sector and Trade Shocks in a Small Open Economy

Jayawickrama, J.M. Ananda - In: South Asia Economic Journal 10 (2009) 1, pp. 81-103

The article examines the impact of external trade shocks on the economy of Sri Lanka, a small and open developing economy with high external trade intensity. Given a variety of specifications, we favour estimating both export demand and supply functions and an import demand function. Export...

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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage: Empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia

Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-19

Consumption smoothing and temporal price arbitrage are the two main economic motives for grain storage in semi-subsistence economies. Nonetheless, little has been documented on the determinants of households' grain storage behavior. Using a rich panel data from maize producing households in...

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Consumption smoothing and price enhancement motives for grain storage : empirical perspectives from rural Ethiopia

Tesfaye, Wondimagegn; Gebremariam, Gebrelibanos - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 8 (2020) 25, pp. 1-19

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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

heterogeneity. Our model allows for four main social insurance programmes. In contrast to simpler models that attribute all income … stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. …

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