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Title:Productivity effects of public capital maintenance : evidence from U.S. states Author(s):KALYVITIS, Sarantis; VELLA, EugeniaDate:2014Citation:Economic inquiry, 2015, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 72–90Type:ArticleAbstract:This article assesses the productivity effects of infrastructure operation and maintenance (O&M) spending by state and local governments in the 48 contiguous U.S. states over the period 1978–2000. We explicitly account for ...

Title:Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea

; FLABBI, LucaDate:2001Citation:Labour Economics, 2001, 8, 3, 359-387Version:The article is a published version of EUI ECO WP; 1998/11Type:ArticleAbstract:Wages may be observed to increase with seniority because of firm-specific human capital accumulation or because of self-selection of better workers in longer jobs. In both these cases, the upward sloping wage profile in ...

Title:Profit-Sharing and Employment - Claims and Overclaims Author(s):NUTI, Domenico MarioDate:1987Citation:Industrial Relations, 1987, 26, 1, 18-29Type:Article

Title:Profits, Risk, and Uncertainty in Foreign-Exchange Markets Author(s):CANOVA, Fabio

; MARRINAN, JaneDate:1993Citation:Journal of Monetary Economics, 1993, 32, 2, 259-286Version:The article is a published version of EUI ECO WP; 1992/73Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the properties of nominal profits from speculation in dollar-dominated forward contracts using a representative agent cash-in-advance model, modified to allow for heteroscedasticity in the exogenous ...

Title:Projectual Vs Adaptive-Behavior - A Comment On Heiner Author(s):SACCO, Pier LuigiDate:1992Citation:Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1992, 18, 1, 119-122Type:Article

Title:Proposal for a cooperative financial institute Author(s):NUTI, Domenico MarioDate:1991Citation:Eastern European economics, 1991, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 55-67Type:Article

Title:Protecting consumers from collusive prices due to AI Author(s):CALZOLARI, Giacomo

; DENICOLÒ, Vincenzo; CALVANOL, Emilio; HARRINGTON Jr., Joseph E.; PASTORELLOL, SergioDate:2020Citation:Science, 2020, Vol. 370, No. 6520, pp. 1040-1042Type:ArticleAbstract:The efficacy of a market system is rooted in competition. In striving to attract customers, firms are led to charge lower prices and deliver better products and services. Nothing more fundamentally undermines this process ...

Title:Protectionism and Autonomy - How to Preserve Free-Trade in Europe Author(s):HAGER, WolfgangDate:1982Citation:International Affairs, 1982, 58, 3, 413-428Type:Article

Title:Providing advice to jobseekers at low cost : an experimental study on online advice Author(s):BELOT, Michele

; KIRCHER, Philipp

; MULLER, PAULDate:2019Citation:The review of economic studies, 2019, Vol. 86, No. 4, pp. 1411-1447Type:ArticleAbstract:We develop and evaluate experimentally a novel tool that redesigns the job search process by providing tailored advice at low cost. We invited job seekers to our computer facilities for twelve consecutive weekly sessions ...

Title:Psykiatriens historie hos Michel Foucault Author(s):SKÅLEVÅG, Svein AtleDate:2006Citation:Scandia, 2006, 72, 2, 13-29Type:Article

Title:Public acceptability of financial incentives to reward pregnant smokers who quit smoking : a United Kingdom-France comparison Author(s):BERLIN, Noémi

; GOLDZAHL, Leontine; BAULD, Linda; HODDINOTT, Pat; BERLIN, IvanDate:2018Citation:European journal of health economics, 2018, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 697-708Type:ArticleAbstract:A substantial amount of research has been conducted on financial incentives to increase abstinence from smoking among pregnant smokers. If demonstrated to be effective, financial incentives could be proposed as part of ...

Title:Public funding for startups in Argentina : an impact evaluation Author(s):BUTLER, Ines; GALASSI, Gabriela Liliana

; RUFFO, HernanDate:2016Citation:Small business economics, 2016, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 295-309Type:ArticleAbstract:A broad literature has found that the misallocation of entrepreneurial talent has strong effects on productivity. To investigate whether the government can improve entrepreneurial activity, we analyze a policy aimed at ...

Title:Public investments in children's human capital : evidence from the literature on non-parental child care Author(s):BRILLI, Ylenia

Date:2014Citation:Rivista Italiana degli Economisti, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 169-194Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper analyzes the most recent empirical research on social investments in children's human capital, focusing on policies providing non-parental child care. The empirical findings are conceptualized in a theoretical ...

Title:A Pure Theory of Job Security and Labour Income Risk Author(s):BERTOLA, GiuseppeDate:2004Citation:Review of Economic Studies, 2004, 71, 1, 43-61Type:Article

Title:Putting Things in Order: Trade Dynamics and Product Cycles Author(s):FEENSTRA, Robert; ROSE, Andrew K.Date:2000Citation:Review Of Economics And Statistics, 2000, 82, 3, 369-382Type:ArticleAbstract:We develop a procedure to rank-order objects using censored panel data sets. We illustrate this by ranking countries and commodities using disaggregated American import data and find evidence that countries and commodities ...

Title:Quantile dependence between developed and emerging stock markets aftermath of the global financial crisis Author(s):LABIDI, Chiaz; RAHMAN, Md Lutfur; HEDSTROEM, Axel; UDDIN, Gazi Salah; BEKIROS, Stelios D.

Date:2018Citation:International review of financial analysis, Vol. 59, pp. 179-211Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper examines the cross-quantile dependence between developed and emerging market stock returns and investigates its time-varying characteristics, using recursive sample estimations. The results based on cross-quantilogram ...

Title:Radical markets by Eric Posner and E. Glen Weyl : a review essay Author(s):LEVINE, David K.

Date:2020Citation:Journal of economic literature, 2020, Vol. 58, No. 2. pp. 471-487Type:ArticleAbstract:At a time when standards of living have improved more than any time in history, this book makes a proposal for radical change. It is based—loosely—on market design principles. The plan for attacking overlapping ownership ...

Title:Randomness, informational entropy, and volatility interdependencies among the major world markets : the role of the Covid-19 pandemic Author(s):LAHMIRI, Salim; BEKIROS, Stelios D.

Date:2020Citation:Entropy, 2020, Vol. 22, No. 8, Art. 833, OnlineOnlyType:ArticleAbstract:The main purpose of our paper is to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on randomness in volatility series of world major markets and to examine its effect on their interconnections. The data set includes equity ...

Title:Rational inattention and organizational focus Author(s):DESSEIN, Wouter

; GALEOTTI, Andrea

; SANTOS, TanoDate:2016Citation:American economic review, 2016, Vol. 106, No. 6, pp. 1522-1536Type:ArticleAbstract:This paper studies optimal communication flows in organizations. A production process can be coordinated ex ante, by letting agents stick to a prespecified plan of action. Alternatively, agents may adapt to task-specific ...

Title:Reaction to technology shocks in Markov-switching structural VARs : identification via heteroskedasticity Author(s):NETŠUNAJEV, AlekseiDate:2013Citation:Journal of Macroeconomics, 2013, Vol. 36, pp. 51-62Type:ArticleAbstract:The paper reconsiders the conflicting results in the debate connected to the effects of technology shocks on hours worked. Given the major dissatisfaction with the just-identifying long-run restrictions, I analyze whether ...