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Title: Do Conditional Benefits Reduce Equilibrium Unemployment? Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Although unconditional unemployment benefits destroy jobs in competitive and noncompetitive labor markets, conditional benefits can spur job growth in noncompetitive labor markets. Unconditional benefits reduce the penalty ...

Title: Do Consumers Care about How Prices Are Set? Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. ...

Title: Do relative factor prices matter? : the long run demand for labour in the Irish manufacturing sector Author(s): KEARNEY, Ide Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Thesis Series/Report no.: EUI PhD theses

Title: Do Social Policies Harm Employment and Growth? Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Working Paper

Title: Do Social Policies Harm Employment? Second-Best Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Labor Markets Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Do Social Policies Harm Employment? Second-Best Effects of Taxes and Benefits on Labor Markets Author(s): VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Contribution to book

Title: Do Sunspots Matter under Complete Ignorance? Author(s): GIORDANI, Paolo; COZZI, Guido Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In a two-period, sunspot, pure-exchange economy we analyse the case in which agents do not assign subjective probabilistic beliefs to the ‘sunspot activity’. Two generations, each of which is made up of identical agents, ...

Title: Do Unions Matter? Trade Reform and Manufacturing Wages in South Africa Author(s): SHENDY, Riham Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The effect of nominal tariff cuts on industry wage differentials has been the subject of a number of recent empirical studies. In this paper we investigate the latter relationship with respect to the South African trade ...

Title: Do We Stay or Not? Return Intentions of Temporary Migrants Author(s): DUSTMANN, Christian Date: 1992 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Does Aid Help Improve Economic Institutions? Author(s): COVIELLO, Decio; ISLAM, Roumeen Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Abstract: Aid is expected to promote better living standards by raising investment and growth. But aid may also affect institutions directly. In theory, these effects may or may not work in the same direction as those on investment. ...

Title: Does Growth Vary Over the Business Cycle? Some Evidence From the G7 Countries Author(s): KONTOLEMIS, Zenon G. Date: 1997 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: In this paper we analyse the dynamics of business cycles in the G7 countries. Our aim is to answer the question of whether growth varies (in an absolute sense) over the business cycle, and hence to examine whether the ...

Title: Does Longevity Cause Growth? A Theoretical Critique Author(s): HAZAN, Moshe; ZOABI, Hosny Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: This paper challenges conventional wisdom by arguing that greater longevity may have contributed less than previously thought for the significant accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. ...

Title: Does Noise Undermine the First-Mover Advantage? An Evolutionary Analysis of Bagwell's Example Author(s): SCHLAG, Karl H.; OECHSSLER, JÖRG Date: 2000 Type of Publication: Article Abstract: Bagwell (1995) considered a simple Stackelberg-type game in which one player benefits from the other's ability to observe his move, assuming they play the unique subgame perfect equilibrium. He showed that introducing noise ...

Title: Does One Currency Mean One Price? Author(s): WOLSZCZAK-DERLACZ, Joanna Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: European Monetary Union was expected to have many consequences for the economies of participant countries. Theory suggested that through a higher volume of trade and stronger competition in the Eurozone, a single currency ...

Title: Does One Soros Make a Difference? A Theory of Currency Crises with Large and Small Traders Author(s): CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DASGUPTA, Amil; MORRIS, Stephen; SHIN, Hyun Song Date: 2004 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Does Publicity Affect Competition? Evidence from Discontinuities in Public Procurement Auctions Author(s): COVIELLO, Decio; MARINIELLO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Calls for tenders are the natural devices to inform bidders, thus to enlarge the pool of potential participants. We exploit discontinuities generated by the Italian Law on tender's publicity to identify the effect of ...

Title: Does Relocation of Economic Activities Hurt Labour in the Home Country? Author(s): MOTTA, Massimo; FUMAGALLI, Chiara Date: 2001 Type of Publication: Article

Title: Does Responsive Pricing Increase Efficiency? Evidence from pricing experiments in an internet café Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Discussion Paper

Title: Does Responsive Pricing Smooth Demand Shocks? Author(s): COURTY, Pascal; PAGLIERO, Mario Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Using data from a unique pricing experiment, we investigate Vickrey’s conjecture that responsive pricing can be used to smooth both predictable and unpredictable demand shocks. Our evidence shows that increasing the ...

Title: Does the Box-Cox Transformation Help in Forecasting Macroeconomic Time Series? Author(s): PROIETTI, Tommaso; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The paper investigates whether transforming a time series leads to an improvement in forecasting accuracy. The class of transformations that is considered is the Box-Cox power transformation, which applies to series measured ...

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