Title:Twin Deficits, Openness and the Business Cycle
Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In this paper, we study the co-movement of the government budget balance and the trade balance at business cycle frequencies. In a sample of 10 OECD countries we find that the correlation of the two time series is negative, ...
Title:Understanding the Size and Profitability of Firms: The Role of a Biological Factor
Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; RUSTICHINI, AldoDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We collect information on prenatal testosterone in a large sample of entrepreneurs by measuring the length of their 2th to 4th fingers in face to face interviews. Entrepreneurs with higher exposure to prenatal testosterone ...
Title:Unemployment and Within-Group Wage Inequality: Can Information Explain the Trade-Off?
Author(s):FACCINI, RenatoDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:In Italy, following WWII, speci c hiring procedures were developed that prevented rms from screening workers. More in particular, these institutions char-
acterized the Italian labor market with respect to the US labor ...
Title:Unpriced Quality Number
Author(s):COURTY, PascalDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:A monopolist deliberately charges the same price for differentiated products when high quality products are more likely to be allocated to low type consumers under uniform pricing. The argument can explain the use of ...