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Title:Cultural Biases in Economic Exchange? Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, LuigiDate:2009Citation:Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, 124, 3, 1095-1131Type:ArticleAbstract:How much do cultural biases affect economic exchange? We answer this question by using data on bilateral trust between European countries. We document that this trust is affected not only by the characteristics of the ...

Title:Customs Union and Technical Efficiency Author(s):PELKMANS, JacquesDate:1982Citation:Economist, 1982, 130, 4, 536-559Type:Article

Title:Dancing with the Devil: Country Size and the Incentive to Tolerate Money Laundering Author(s):GNUTZMANN, Hinnerk; MCCARTHY, Killian J.; UNGER, BrigitteDate:2010Citation:International Review of Law and Economics, 2010, 30, 3, 244-252Type:ArticleAbstract:The incidence of money laundering, and the zeal with which international anti-money laundering (AML) policy is pursued, varies significantly from country to country, region to region. There are, however, quite substantial ...

Title:Das Verbot von Cross-Ticketing in den AGB von Flugbeförderungsverträgen und deren verbandsklagerechtliche Kontrolle – Eine ökonomische und rechtliche Analyse Author(s):PURNHAGEN, Kai Peter EUI affiliated

; HAUZENBERGER, KlemensDate:2009Citation:Verbraucher und Recht (VUR), 2009, 4, 131-137Type:Article

Title:Dating Business Cycles: a Methodological Contribution with an Application to the Euro Area Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; MARCELLINO, Massimiliano EUI affiliated

; PROIETTI, TommasoDate:2004Citation:Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 66, 4, 537-565Type:Article

Title:Dating the Business Cycle in Britain Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.Date:2005Citation:National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 182, 1, 90-95Type:ArticleAbstract:The NIESR's monthly GDP series is an innovative feature; most GDP estimates are published at an annual, or quarterly frequency at best. For purposes of dating the business cycle the availability of this series is an asset, ...

Title:Dealer Pricing of Consumer Credit Author(s):BERTOLA, Giuseppe; HOCHGUERTEL, Stefan; KOENIGER, WinfriedDate:2005Citation:International Economic Review, 2005, 46, 4, 1103-1142Type:Article

Title:Dealing with financial instability under a DSGE modeling approach with banking intermediation : a predictability analysis versus TVP-VARs Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios D.; CARDANI, Roberta; PACCAGNINI, Alessia; VILLA, StefaniaDate:2016Citation:Journal of financial stability, 2016, Vol. 26, pp. 216-227Type:ArticleAbstract:In the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) literature there has been an increasing awareness on the role that the banking sector can play in macroeconomic activity. We present a DSGE model with financial ...

Title:Decision Makers Facing Uncertainty: Theory Versus Evidence Author(s):GIORDANI, Paolo; SCHLAG, Karl H.; ZWART, SanneDate:2010Citation:Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31, 4, 659-675Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper aims at assessing cultural differences in uncertainty attitude across Europe. We select questions from the European Values Survey (EVS) capturing salient features of uncertain scenarios (safe versus uncertain, ...

Title:Deep habits Author(s):RAVN, Morten O.; SCHMITT-GROHE, Stephanie; URIBE, MartinDate:2006Citation:Review of economic studies, 2006, 73(1), 254, 195-218Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper generalizes the standard habit-formation model to an environment in which agents form habits over individual varieties of goods as opposed to over a composite consumption good. We refer to this preference ...

Title:Demand reduction and inefficiency in multi-unit auctions Author(s):AUSUBEL, Lawrence M.; CRAMTON, Peter; PYCIA, Marek; ROSTEK, Marzena; WERETKA, MarekDate:2014Citation:The review of economic studies, 2014, Vol. 81, No. 4, pp. 1366-1400Type:ArticleAbstract:Auctions often involve the sale of many related goods: Treasury, spectrum and electricity auctions are examples. In multi-unit auctions, a bid for one unit may affect payments for other units won, giving rise to an incentive ...

Title:Deposit Insurance and Risk Taking Author(s):ALLEN, Franklin; CARLETTI, Elena EUI affiliated

; LEONELLO, AgneseDate:2011Citation:Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27, 3, 464-478Type:ArticleAbstract:We review the theory of deposit insurance, highlighting the underlying assumptions that were not satisfied during the recent financial crisis and that may have led to serious policy mistakes. In theoretical models, deposit ...

Title:Designed to fail : the medicare auction for durable medical equipment Author(s):CRAMTON, Peter; ELLERMEYER, Sean; KATZMAN, Brett E.Date:2015Citation:Economic inquiry, 2015, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 469-485Type:ArticleAbstract:We examine the theoretical properties of the auction for Medicare Durable Medical Equipment. Two unique features of the Medicare auction are (1) winners are paid the median winning bid and (2) bids are nonbinding. We show ...

Title:Detecting big structural breaks in large factor models Author(s):CHEN, Liang; DOLADO, Juan J.; GONZALO, JesúsDate:2014Citation:Journal of econometrics, 2014, No. 180, pp. 30-48Type:ArticleAbstract:Time invariance of factor loadings is a standard assumption in the analysis of large factor models. Yet, this assumption may be restrictive unless parameter shifts are mild (i.e., local to zero). In this paper we develop ...

Title:Detecting nonlinear interdependencies in eurozone peripheral equity markets : a multistep filtering approach Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios D.; AVDOULAS, Christos; BOUBAKER, SabriDate:2016Citation:Economic modelling, 2016, Vol. 58, pp. 580-587Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper assesses the presence of linear and nonlinear dynamic causal relations among the stock markets of the Eurozone peripheral countries, namely Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIIGS countries). In addition ...

Title:Determinants of Short-Term Debt: a note Author(s):LUSINYAN, Lusine; BUCH, ClaudiaDate:2003Citation:Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2003, 13, 2, 157-170Type:Article

Title:The development of egalitarianism, altruism, spite and parochialism in childhood and adolescence? Author(s):FEHR, Ernst; GLÄTZLE-RÜTZLER, Daniela; SUTTER, MatthiasDate:2013Citation:European Economic Review, 2013, Vol. 64, pp. 369-383Type:ArticleAbstract:We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, altruistic, or spiteful. ...

Title:Direct Foreign-Investment in the United-States Author(s):MARTIN, StephenDate:1991Citation:Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1991, 16, 3, 283-293Type:Article

Title:Directional predictability and time-varying spillovers between stock markets and economic cycles Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios D.; HUSSAIN, Syed J.; ARREOLA HERNANDEZ, Jose; REHMAN, Mobeen U.Date:2017Citation:Economic modelling, 2017, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:We examine the nonlinear dependence structure and causal nexus between business cycles, stock market returns and asset return volatility for the US economy. We implement two novel methodologies, namely quantile-on-quantile ...

Title:Disaggregated Wage Curves in the United States: Evidence From Panel Data of Young Workers Author(s):TURUNEN, JarkkoDate:1998Citation:Applied Economics, 1998, 30, 12, 1665-1677Type:ArticleAbstract:The paper presents wage curve results disaggregated over time, by individual characteristics, occupations, industries and regions in the United States, using a panel data set of young workers. The results suggest that ...