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Need for Conclusive Evidence that Positive and Negative Reciprocity are Unrelated

Egloff, Boris; Richter, David; Schmukle, Stefan C. - In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (2013) 9, pp. E786

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Finding communities in credit networks

Bargigli, Leonardo; Gallegati, Mauro - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-17, pp. 1-39

is relevant for policy, since these subsets are likely to channel any shock affecting the network. As it turns out, a … reliable answer can be obtained with the aid of complex network theory. In particular, the authors show how it is possible to ….e. those able extend the initial shock to the entire system. …

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Management Practice in Production

Triebs, Thomas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2012

In this paper we account for observed management practice in the estimation of aproduction function. In our model …

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Endogenous Labor Market Insitutions in an Open Economy

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Wolfgang, Lechthaler - 2011

The paper sets up a two-country asymmetric trade model with heterogeneous firms,search frictions and endogenous labor market institutions. Countries are linked by tradein goods and non-cooperatively set unemployment benefits to maximize national welfare.We show that more open and smaller...

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Policy Persistence and Rent Extraction

Friedrich, Silke - 2011

The existing literature has shown that special interest groups can have both growthenhancing and retarding effects on an economy. In either case it is always assumed thatthe nature of the special interest groups remains constant over time. The hypothesis ofthis paper is that a dynamic...

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On the Robustness of the Balance Statistics with respect to Nonresponse

Seiler, Christian - 2012

Business cycle indicators based on the balance statistics are a widely used method tomonitor the actual economic situation. In contrast to official data, indicators frombusiness surveys are early available and typically not revised after their first publication.But as surveys can be in general...

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Do Couples Bargain over Fertility? Evidence Based on Child Preference Data

Hener, Timo - 2010

Empirical literature has found evidence in favour of household bargaining models.In contrast to earlier tests that are limited to assignable private goods, we use childpreference data in order to extend the empirical evidence on household bargaining topublic household goods. In the empirical...

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Korruption und Schattenwirtschaft

Thum, Marcel - 2005

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit dem Verhältnis von Schattenwirtschaft und Korruptionauseinander. Es wird insbesondere die Frage untersucht, welche Rolle die Schattenwirtschaftin korrupten Ökonomien spielt. Die Schattenwirtschaft begrenzt letztendlich dieMacht korrupter Institutionen, indem sie...

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Income Risk, Saving and Taxation: Will Precautionary Saving Survive?

Arent, Stefan; Eck, Alexander; Kloss, Michael; Krohmer, … - 2012

Former theoretical and empirical studies find that precautionary savings are reduced inthe presence of social security systems. The saving motive, however, does not change:individuals respond to increasing income risk by increasing their savings. Although thisstill holds for common tax and...

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Marshall or Jacobs? Answers to an unsuitable question from an interaction model

Kluge, Jan; Lehmann, Robert - 2012

This paper investigates whether localization economies as brought forward by Marshall(1890) or urbanization economies as mentioned by Jacobs (1970) are more decisive forregional gross value added per capita. Our novel approach is to explicitly allow forinterdependencies between these two...

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