Title:Heterogeneous switching costs and vertical mergers : cases for state intervention?
Author(s):WIENRICH, UlrikeDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Over the last months economic discussions have been as intense as rarely before, questioning the foundations of economic theory as well as practice. The financial and economic crisis has had a strong impact on economic ...
Title:Hierarchies of Conditional Beliefs and Interactive Epistemology in Dynamic Games
Author(s):BATTIGALLI, Pierpaolo; SINISCALCHI, MarcianoDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The epistemic analysis of solution concepts for dynamic games involves statements about the players' beliefs conditional upon different histories of play, their conditional beliefs about each other's conditional beliefs, ...
Title:High exchange-rate volatility and low pass-through
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Two specifications of an open-economy model are shown to generate high exchange-rate volatility and low exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT). In the model, price discrimination causes ERPT to be incomplete in both the short ...
Title:Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission
Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, Frederick; VEUGELERS, ReinhildeDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Discussions on problems in higher education in Europe typically focus on rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of internationalisation, the lack of private and public ...
Title:Hiring Quality Labour
Author(s):HERRING, RobbinDate:1994Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and and Portfolios across the Wealth Distribution
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Wealthier people generally hold a larger part of their savings in risky
assets. Using the US Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that wealthier
households also have a higher portfolio share of foreign assets. This ...
Title:Horizontal Equity
Author(s):GALBIATI, Roberto; VERTOVA, PietroDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The principle of horizontal equity (HE) is considered as a basic principle to follow in order to design and evaluate a redistributive policy. However, the theoretical debate has not yet clarified what exactly horizontal ...
Title:How Important is Intra-Household Risk Sharing for Savings and Labor Supply?
Author(s):ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador; SIASSI, NawidDate:2010-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:While it is recognized that the family is primarily an institution for risk sharing, little is known about the quantitative effects of this informal source of insurance on savings and labor supply. In this paper, we present ...