Browsing Department of Economics (ECO) by Title

Title:Wage coordination and unemployment dynamics in Norway and Sweden Author(s):BARKBU, Bergljot; NYMOEN, Ragnar; ROED, KnutDate:2003Citation:Journal of Socio-Economics, 2003, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 37-58Type:Article

Title:Wage dispersion over the business cycle Author(s):MORIN, AnnaïgDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/28Abstract:In this paper, I establish a positive correlation between wage dispersion and GDP at business cycle frequencies. Moreover, I provide a rationale for the procyclical properties of wage dispersion by studying a dynamic search ...

Title:The wage-price spiral in Greece : an application of the LSE methodology in systems of nonstationary variables Author(s):SIDERIS, DimitriosDate:1996Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1996/26

Title:Wages and the Size of Firms in Dynamic Matching Models Author(s):BERTOLA, Giuseppe; GARIBALDI, P.Date:2001Citation:Review Of Economic Dynamics, 2001, 4, 2, 335-368Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper studies the joint distribution of wages and employment levels in simple matching models of job creation and destruction with costly search and firm-specific labor demand shocks. Existing evidence on the relationship ...

Title:Waiting for the paycheck : individual and aggregate effects of wage payment Author(s):BERNIELL, InésDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2016/05Abstract:This paper shows that the frequency at which workers are paid affects the within-month patterns of both household expenditure and aggregate economic activity. To identify causal effects, I exploit two novel sources of ...

Title:Walrasian equilibrium without survival : existence, efficiency, and remedial policy Author(s):COLES, Jeffrey L.; HAMMOND, Peter J.Date:1991Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1991/50

Title:Waving goodbye? : the determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe Author(s):ÁLVAREZ PEREIRA, Brais; PORTOS GARCÍA, Martín

; VOURDAS, John

Date:2018Citation:Regional studies, 2018, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 197-211Type:ArticleAbstract:Waving goodbye? The determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe. Regional Studies. This paper sheds light on the main aggregate-level determinants of electoral support for regionalist parties across 10 ...

Title:Weak Instruments and Weak Identification in Estimating the Effects of Education on Democracy Author(s):COVIELLO, Decio; BOBBA, MatteoDate:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:American Development Bank Working Paper; 569Abstract:Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as 'weakly exogenous' we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results ...

Title:Weak Instruments and Weak Identification, in Estimating the Effects of Education, on Democracy Author(s):BOBBA, Matteo; COVIELLO, DecioDate:2007Citation:Economics Letters, 2007, 96, 301-306Type:ArticleAbstract:Is there any relation between education and democracy? Once we correct for weak instruments and identify education as “weakly exogenous” we find new evidence that education systematically predicts democracy. Our results ...

Title:Welfare and redistributive effects of sectoral economic integration :the common agricultural policy Author(s):CROCI ANGELINI, ElisabettaDate:1986Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 1986Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; ECO; PhD Thesis

Title:The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy, Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2004Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:CESifo Working Paper; 2004/1234

Title:The Welfare State, Redistribution and the Economy: Reciprocal Altruism, Consumer Rivalry and Second Best Author(s):VAN DER PLOEG, FrederickDate:2006Citation:Francesco FARINA and Ernesto SAVAGLIO (eds), Inequality and Economic Integration, London, New York, Routledge, 2006, 192-223Type:Contribution to book

Title:What accounts for the changes in U.S. fiscal policy transmission? Author(s):BILBIIE, Florin Ovidiu; MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2006Version:The working paper is a revised version of a chapter 3 of the author's EUI PhD thesis, 2005Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:ECB Working Papers; 2006/582Abstract:Using vector autoregressions on U.S. time series for 1957-1979 and 1983-2004, we find government spending shocks to have stronger effects on output, consumption, and wages in the earlier sample. We try to account for this ...

Title:What can we learn about news shocks from the late 1990s and early 2000s boom-bust period? Author(s):BEN ZEEV, NadavDate:2013Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2013/25Abstract:The boom-bust period of 1997-2003 is commonly viewed as an expectations-driven episode in which overly optimistic expectations about information and communications technology (ICT) were followed by their downward revision. ...

Title:What causes currency crises : sunspots, contagion or fundamentals? Author(s):FRATZSCHER, MarcelDate:1999Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1999/39

Title:What Determines Entrepreneurial Clusters? Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SCHIVARDI, FabianoDate:2011Citation:Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9, 1, 61-86Type:ArticleAbstract:We contrast two potential explanations of the substantial differences in entrepreneurial activity observed across geographical areas: entry costs and external effects. We extend the Lucas model of entrepreneurship to allow ...

Title:What Determines Entrepreneurial Clusters? Author(s):GUISO, Luigi; SCHIVARDI, FabianoDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2007/48Abstract:We contrast two potential explanations of the substantial differences in entrepreneurial activity observed across geographical areas: entry costs and external effects. We extend the Lucas model of entrepreneurship to allow ...

Title:What determines government spending multipliers? Author(s):CORSETTI, Giancarlo

; MEIER, André; MÜLLER, Gernot J.Date:2012Citation:Economic policy, 2012, Vol. 27, No. 72, pp. 521-565Type:Article

Title:What do CEOs do? Author(s):BANDIERA, Oriana; GUISO, Luigi; PRAT, Andrea; SADUN, RaffaellaDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2011/06Abstract:We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEO’s time use. The idea sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm’s priorities ...

Title:What Does European Institutional Integration Tell Us About Trade Integration? Author(s):AGUR, Itai; MONGELLI, Francesco Paolo; DORRUCCI, EttoreDate:2005Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:ECB Occasional Paper; 40