Title:International Consumption Insurance and Within-Country Risk Reallocation
Author(s):LO PRETE, AnnaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Institutions meant to reallocate risks that cannot be fully diversified on financial
markets, such as labour income fluctuations, may also affect the response of aggregate
consumption to country-specific income shocks. ...
Title:The International Dimension of Productivity and Demand Shocks in the US Economy
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPRAbstract:This paper investigates the international dimension of productivity and demand shocks to US manufacturing. Identifying shocks with sign restrictions based on standard theory predictions we find that productivity gains in ...
Title:International Risk Sharing and the Transmission of Productivity Shocks
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; LEDUC, SylvainDate:2004Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:CEPR discussion paperAbstract:A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to efficient risk sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This Paper shows that ...
Title:The International Risk-Sharing Puzzle is at Business Cycle and Lower Frequency
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; DEDOLA, Luca; VIANI, FrancescaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We decompose the Backus-Smith [1993] statistic -- a low or negative correlation between relative consumption and the real exchange rate at odds with a high degree of international risk sharing -- in its dynamic components ...
Title:International Schumpeterian Competition and Optimal R&D Subsidies
Author(s):IMPULLITI, GiammarioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for
innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of
cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
Title:International Schumpeterian competition and optimal R&D subsidies
Author(s):IMPULLITI, GiammarioDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper studies the welfare effects of international competition in the market for
innovations, and analyzes how competition affects the costs and the benefits of
cooperative and non-cooperative R&D subsidies. I set ...
Title:International Trade and Growth: The Impact of Selection and Imitation
Author(s):STÖLTING, SarahDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:This paper develops an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms to analyze
the impact of intra-industry trade on productivity growth. Growth is generated by selection,
and sustained by entrants imitating successful ...
Title:Intertemporal Objectives.
Author(s):HAMMOND, Peter J.Date:1990Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO
Title:Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination
Author(s):SCHUETT, FlorianDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:The objective of patent examination is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Good applications - those satisfying the patentability criteria, particularly novelty and nonobviousness - should be accepted, while bad applications ...
Title:Is Discrete Time a Good Representation of Continuous Time?
Author(s):LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A.Date:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Economists model time as continuous or discrete. The recent literature
on continuous time models with delays should help to bridge the gap
between these two families of models. In this note, we propose a simple
time–to–build ...
Title:Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?
Author(s):EHRBECK, Tilman; WALDMANN, RobertDate:1995Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECO