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Cogan, John F.; Taylor, John B.; Wieland, Volker; … - 2012

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and great recession, many countries face substantial deficits and growing debts. In the United States, federal government outlays as a ratio to GDP rose substantially from about 19.5 percent before the crisis to over 24 percent after the crisis. In...

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A dynamic programming approach to constrained portfolios

Kraft, Holger; Steffensen, Mogens - 2012

This paper studies constrained portfolio problems that may involve constraints on the probability or the expected size of a shortfall of wealth or consumption. Our first contribution is that we solve the problems by dynamic programming, which is in contrast to the existing literature that...

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Public debt, child allowances and pension benefits with endogenous fertility

Yasuoka, Masaya; Miyake, Atsushi - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-11, pp. 1-25

The public debt stock in some economically developed countries continues to increase because of a lack of tax revenues and the concomitant burdens of social security. Many of those countries suffer from lower birth rates and consequently, have fewer children. Child allowances might be an...

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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 management practice is observable and we allow it toaffect output directly (neutral shift) and indirectly by affecting input productivity. Thisformulation gives us a semiparametric...

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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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