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Title: Intertemporal Objectives. Author(s): HAMMOND, Peter J. Date: 1990 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Inventors and Impostors: An Economic Analysis of Patent Examination Author(s): SCHUETT, Florian Date: 2009 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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: Inventory Holdings by a Monopolist Middleman Author(s): FINGLETON, John Date: 1991 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Is Discrete Time a Good Representation of Continuous Time? Author(s): LICANDRO, Omar; PUCH, Luis A. Date: 2006 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: 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, Robert Date: 1995 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Is Job Turnover Countercyclical? Author(s): BOERI, Tito Date: 1995 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Is Nominal Public But De Facto Private Land Ownership Appropriate? ,A Comparative Study among Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam; Japan, Taiwan Province of China, South Korea; China, Myanmar; and North Korea Author(s): ZHOU, Jian-Ming Date: 1998 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Is the New Keynesian Phillips Curve Flat? Author(s): STÖLTING, Sarah; KUESTER, Keith; MÜLLER, Gernot J. Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: ECB Working Paper Abstract: Macroeconomic data suggest that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is quite flat - despite microeconomic evidence implying frequent price adjustments. While real rigidities may help to account for the conflicting evidence, ...

Title: Is there a European Business Cycle? Author(s): ARTIS, Michael J. Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: Working Paper

Title: Is there a European Business Cycle? Author(s): ARTIS, Michael J. Date: 2003 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: CESifo Working Paper Abstract: The paper uses quarterly GDP data for some 30 years up to and including 2001, to examine the identity and development of the European business cycle. Cycles are identified by using a band-pass filter version of the ...

Title: Is there Consumption Risk Sharing in the EEC? Author(s): UBIDE, Angel J. Date: 1994 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Is Transparency to No Avail? Committee Decision-Making, Pre-Meeting, and Credible Deals Author(s): SWANK, Otto H.; VISSER, Bauke Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Jordan Matrices on the Equivalence of the I(1) Conditions for VAR Systems Author(s): ARCHONTAKIS, Fragiskos Date: 1999 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Just A Matter of Time: Empirical Evidence of the Causal Effect of Education on Fertility in Italy Author(s): FORT, Margherita Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: This paper assesses the causal effects of education on fertility, allowing for heterogeneity in the effects while controlling for the self-selection of women into education. Identification relies on exogenous variation ...

Title: La Pléiade and Exchange Rate Pass-Through Author(s): BANIAK, Andrzej; PHLIPS, Louis Date: 1994 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Labor Adjustment: Disentangling Firing and Mobility Costs Author(s): GUISO, Luigi; SAPIENZA, Paola; ZINGALES, Luigi Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper studies the costs of adjusting employment, distinguishing between firms’ firing and workers’ mobility costs. We construct a simple dynamic general equilibrium model of labor demand and supply and show that ...

Title: Labor Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle: Structural Evidence for the United States Author(s): RAVN, Morten O.; SIMONELLI, Saverio Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We use a 12-dimensional VAR to examine the dynamic effects on the labor market of four struc- tural technology and policy shocks. For each shock, we examine the dynamic effects on the labor market, the importance of the ...

Title: Labor Market Reform and Wage Bargaining in a Monetary Union Author(s): TAGKALAKIS, Athanasios Date: 2002 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO

Title: Labor Turnover before Plant Closure: ‘Leaving the sinking ship’ vs. ‘Captain throwing ballast overboard’ Author(s): SCHWERDT, Guido Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Involuntary job loss in administrative data is commonly identified by focusing on mass-layoffs or plant closures. However, such events usually do not happen without prior knowledge, which potentially leads to selection ...

Title: Labor-Market Volatility in the Search-and-Matching Model: The Role of Investment-Specific Technology Shocks Author(s): FACCINI, Renato; ORTIGUEIRA, Salvador Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: Shocks to investment-specific technology have been identified as a main source of U.S. aggregate output volatility. In this paper we assess the contribution of these shocks to the volatility of labor market variables, ...

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