, a constant tax during employment that does not depend on the duration of the spell, and free access to savings using a … against the uncertain duration of unemployment spells …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … affect family formation through human capital accumulation, but also through changing the duration of earlier life phases …. This is important as not only age at marriage and first birth increases in many countries, but also the duration of the …

This paper introduces the Markov-Switching Multifractal Duration (MSMD) model by adapting the MSM stochastic volatility … model of Calvet and Fisher (2004) to the duration setting. Although the MSMD process is exponential� beta-mixing as we show …-memory duration models in an out-of-sample forecasting exercise based on price durations of three major foreign exchange futures …

unemployment insurance on unemployment duration in Brazil, where we find strong evidence of manipulation at eligibility cutoffs …