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The Role of Card Acceptance in the Transaction Demand for Money

Huynh, Kim P.; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Stix, Helmut - 2014

The use of payment cards, either debit or credit, is becoming more and more widespread in developed economies. Nevertheless, the use of cash remains significant. We hypothesize that the lack of card acceptance at the point of sale is a key reason why cash continues to play an important role. We...

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Productivity shocks, long-term contracts and earnings dynamics

Balke, Neele; Lamadon, Thibaut - 2021

This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an economy with search frictions and firm commitment. We develop an equilibrium search model with worker and firm shocks and characterize the optimal contract offered by competing...

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The demand for imports and exports in Africa: A survey

Olabisi, Michael; Sawyer, W. Charles - In: Journal of African Trade 7 (2020) 1/2, pp. 45-59

To drive economic development, it is important for policy makers to have a good understanding of the linkages between imports, exports, and the rest of the economy. This is particularly true for Africa. The continent depends on exports of commodities to finance imports of manufactured goods for...

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Take-up and labour supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings threshold. While intended to screen out applicants with high remaining working capacity, earnings limits can also distort the labor supply of beneficiaries. We develop a simple...

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Prioritization, risk selection, and illness severity in a mixed health care system

Olivella, Pau; Vera-Hernández, Marcos - 2022

We study the link between illness severity and the use of public health care services by the privately insured under a public health system. Our theoretical model shows that this relationship will depend on the prioritization established by the public health authorities, the cost of waiting and...

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Intergenerational income persistence: Evidence for the UK

Van der Erve, Laura; Krutikova, Sonya; Macmillan, Lindsey; … - 2022

Intergenerational mobility is a subject of a large literature in social science. It focuses on the association between parents' and children's economic wellbeing and receives significant attention because it speaks to the question of equality of opportunity (Torche, 2015), which many consider an...

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Flexible estimation of random coefficient logit models of differentiated product demand

Kandelhardt, Johannes - 2023

and supply. Precise estimation of parameter estimates is therefore crucial to obtain realistic economic predictions. The … estimates of the structural parameters. With access to micro data, the approach allows for the estimation of highly flexible … patterns without substantially altering the procedure of estimation, making it relevant for practitioners. The BLP estimator is …

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Identifying network ties from panel data: Theory and an application to tax competition

De Paula, Áureo; Rasul, Imran; Souza, Pedro C. L. - 2023

are all globally identified. While this result is relevant across different estimation strategies, we then describe how … high-dimensional estimation techniques can be used to estimate the interactions model based on the Adaptive Elastic Net …

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Cohort size and labour-market outcomes

Roth, Duncan; Moffat, John D.; Garloff, Alfred - 2018

How does the size of young age cohorts affect the labour-market outcomes of these groups? Employing different microeconometric methods in an empirical analysis at the regional level, Duncan Roth addresses this question in the four essays contained in this book. The analysis deals with the...

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Spatial dependence and heterogeneity in empirical analyses of regional labour market dynamics

Schanne, Norbert - 2015

Are regions within a country really independent islands? Do economic relations and effects really have a homogenous, unique size across an entire country? These two assumptions are often imposed implicitly in empirical economic and social research. In his doctoral thesis, Norbert Schanne...

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