Title:Intrahousehold Insurance and its Implications for Macroeconomic Outcomes
Author(s):SIASSI, NawidDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Most theoretical and empirical work on consumption, labor supply and saving decisions has been based on the paradigm that households behave as single agents. While this approach is often convenient, it relies on very ...
Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...
Title:Investment and Property Rights in Yugoslavia: The long transition to a market economy
Author(s):UVALIC, MilicaDate:1992Type of Publication:BookAbstract:In this book, Milica Uvalic examines the theoretical and empirical issues related to investment in Yugoslavia since 1965. She explores investment policies, sources of finance, macroeconomic performance, enterprise incentives ...
Title:Is Discrete Time a Good Representation of Continuous Time?
Author(s):LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economists model time as continuous or discrete. The recent literature
on continuous time models with delays should help to bridge the gap
between these two families of models. In this note, we propose a simple
time–to–build ...
Title:Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?
Author(s):EHRBECK, Tilman; WALDMANN, RobertDate:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Is Job Turnover Countercyclical?
Author(s):BOERI, Tito; BELLMANN, L.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In recent years several models have been developed in an attempt to explain countercyclical movements of job turnover, the sum of gross job creation and destruction rates. However, only in the United States is a negative ...
Title:Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat?
Author(s):STÖLTING, Sarah; KUESTER, Keith; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:ECB Working PaperAbstract:Macroeconomic data suggest that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is quite flat - despite microeconomic evidence implying frequent price adjustments. While real rigidities may help to account for the conflicting evidence, ...
Title:Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat?
Author(s):STÖLTING, Sarah; KUESTER, Keith; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper provides Monte Carlo evidence that GMM estimates of the New Keynesian Phillips curve are biased towards finding too much price rigidity if cost-push shocks are auto-correlated. This result may reconcile GMM ...
Title:Is there a European Business Cycle?
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:2003Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Working Paper