Title:Can Trade Help Poor People? The Role of Trade, Trade Policy and Market Access in Tanzania
Author(s):DUYGAN, Burcu; BUMP, Jesse BDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Many development economists prescribe trade as a poverty-reducing formula. But how is this elixir supposed to work? This article contributes to the lively debate on this topic with household evidence from Tanzania — a poor ...
Title:Changes in the Wage Structure By Types of Contract, 1995-2002
Author(s):MOTELLON, Elisabet; LOPEZ-BAZO, Enrique; EL-ATTAR, MayssunDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyses changes in the wage distribution in Spain between 1995 and 2002, using data from the Wage Structure Survey. Results show a modification of the wage distribution over the period under analysis, which ...
Title:Choice Under Complete Uncertainty When Outcome Spaces Are State Dependent
Author(s):PUPPE, Clemens; SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:One central objection to the maximin payoff criterion is that it focuses on the state that yields the lowest payoffs regardless of how low these are. We allow different states to have different sets of possible outcomes ...
Title:Christopher Dow on Major Recessions
Author(s):ARTIS, Michael J.; FLEMMING, J.; MATTHEWS, R.; WEALE, MartinDate:2000Type of Publication:Article
Title:Clean Evidence on Peer Effects
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; FALK, ArminDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the "pair" treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...
Title:Clean evidence on peer effects
Author(s):FALK, Armin; ICHINO, AndreaDate:2006Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We study subjects who were asked to fill letters into envelopes with a remuneration independent of output. In the 'pair' treatment, two subjects worked at the same time in the same room, and peer effects were possible. In ...
Title:Comparing Projections and Outcomes of IMF-Supported Programs
Author(s):MUSSO, Alberto; PHILLIPS, S.Date:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Program numbers from a sample of IMF-supported programs are studied as if they were forecasts, through statistical analyses of the relationship between projections and outcomes for growth, inflation, and three balance of ...
Title:Comparison of Tests for the Cointegrating Rank of a VAR Process with a Structural Shift
Author(s):LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; SAIKKONEN, Pentti; TRENKLER, CarstenDate:2003Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Two different types of tests for the cointegrating rank of vector autoregressive processes with a deterministic shift in the level have been proposed in the literature. The first proposal is based on the likelihood ratio ...
Title:Comparison of Unit Root Tests for Time Series with Level Shifts
Author(s):LANNE, Markku; LUETKEPOHL, Helmut; SAIKKONEN, PenttiDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Unit root tests are considered for time series which have a level shift at a known point in time. The shift can have a very general nonlinear form, and additional deterministic mean and trend terms are allowed for. Prior ...
Title:Complex Networks and Local Externalities: A strategic approach
Author(s):VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; GALEOTTI, AndreaDate:2011Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we illustrate a new approach to the study of how local externalities shape agents’ strategic behavior when the underlying network is volatile and complex. We consider a large population that interacts as ...
Title:Complexity, Wages, and the O-Ring Production Function: Evidence From Finnish Panel Data
Author(s):PEKKARINEN, TuomasDate:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper is an empirical study on the effect of complexity of the production porcess on individual hourly wages. According to a model-due to Kremer [Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (1993) 551] and Dalmazzo [Dalmazzo, ...
Title:Constructing Historical Euro-Zone Data
Author(s):BEYER, Andreas; DOORNIK, Jurgen A.; HENDRY, David F.Date:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Existing methods of reconstructing historical Euro-zone data by aggregation of the individual countries' aggregate data raises numerous difficulties, especially due to past exchange rate changes. The approach proposed here ...
Title:Convergence at Last? Evidence From Transition Countries
Author(s):POLANEC, SasoDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article reexamines the hypotheses of absolute and conditional convergence for a sample of twenty-five transition countries over the period from 1990 to 2002. After splitting the sample into three four-year periods, ...
Title:Convergence in Monetary Inflation Models with Heterogeneous Learning Rules
Author(s):EVANS, George W.; HONKAPOHJA, Seppo M. S.; MARIMON, RamonDate:2001Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Inflation and the monetary financing of deficits are analyzed in a model in which the deficit is constrained to be less than a given fraction of a measure of aggregate market activity. Depending on parameter values, the ...