Title:Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; LECHENE, ValérieDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evidence of selection, ...
Title:Heterogeneous Firms, `Profit Shifting‘ FDI and International Tax Competition
Author(s):KRAUTHEIM, Sebastian; SCHMIDT-EISENLOHR, TimDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We develop a stylized model of international tax competition between a large country and a tax haven. In the large country, firms in a monopolistically competitive industry generate positive profits which can be taxed by ...
Title:Heterogeneous Individuals in the International Economy
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Does financial globalisation increase inequality? Should households with little financial wealth still hold foreign assets? Are consumption patterns of low income earners more dispersed than those of the rich? Do aggregate ...
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