Title:I Prefer Not to Know! Analyzing the decision of getting information about your ability
Author(s):GRANADOS ZAMBRANO, PaulinaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The recognition that information is, most of the time, incomplete and imperfect is essential in understanding the nature of the formation of beliefs. To understand human behavior in the area of (academic) performance, the ...
Title:An I(2) Analysis of Inflation and the Markup
Author(s):BANERJEE, Anindya; COCKERELL, Lynne; RUSSELL, BillDate:1998Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Identification and Estimation of Latent Attitudes and their Behavioral Implications
Author(s):SPADY, RichardDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:cemmap Working PapersAbstract:This paper (i) formalizes conditions under which a population distribution of categorical responses to attitudinal questions (‘items’) has a scale representation; (ii) develops tests for whether a particular sample of item ...
Title:Identification and Estimation of Latent Variables and their Effect on Social and Economic Outcomes
Author(s):EL-ATTAR VILALTA, MayssunDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Recently, there has been strong interest among economists in the impact of social and cultural factors on economic outcomes. For instance, concepts like culture, social capital or social attitudes have been used to explain ...
Title:Identification and Estimation of Sources of Common Fluctuations: New methodologies and applications
Author(s):MACIEJOWSKA, KatarzynaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis addresses the problem of how to identify and model sources of common fluctuations of economic variables. It is an interesting question not only for researchers but also for policy makers and other authorities. ...
Title:Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Author(s):GALE, Douglas; GOTTARDI, PieroDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We study a competitive model in which market incompleteness implies that debt-financed firms may default in some states of nature and default may lead to the sale of the firms’ assets at fire sale prices when markets are ...
Title:Imitation and Selective Matching In Reputational Games
Author(s):VIGNOLO, ThierryDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper investigates imitation and selective matching in reputational
games with an outside option. We identify two classes of such games, which
are ultimatum and trust games. By selective matching we mean that ...
Title:Imitation and Selective Matching in Reputational Games
Author(s):VIGNOLO, ThierryDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper investigates imitation and selective matching in reputational games with an outside option. We identify two classes of such games, ultimatum and trust games. By selective matching we mean that short-run players ...
Title:The Impact of Income Shocks on Health: Evidence from Cohort Data
Author(s):ADDA, Jérôme; BANKS, James; VON GAUDECKER, Hans-MartinDate:2009-01-01Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more than half a million individuals sampled over a 25-year period in three different cross-sectional surveys ...