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作者：Attanasio, O; Sánchez-Marcos, V; Low, H
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Universidad de Cantabria
摘要：In this paper, we explore the role of female labor supply as an insurance mechanism against idiosyncratic earnings risk within the family. We use a life-cycle model in which a unitary family makes consumption, saving, and labor supply decisions. Additional uncertainty increases female participation rates. This effect on participation is greatest when the ability to borrow (and hence to smooth consumption) is limited. We calculate the welfare cost of increases in uncertainty and show that the w...
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作者：Doepke, M; Zilibotti, F
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要：One of the key social transformations that accompanied the British Industrial Revolution was the economic decline of the aristocracy. Standard theories of wealth inequality cannot explain why the aristocrats, in spite of their superior wealth and education, failed to be the main protagonists and beneficiaries of industrialization. We discuss recent research based on a model of endogenous preferences that is consistent with the demise of aristocracy.
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作者：Vega-Redondo, F; Marsili, M; Slanina, F
作者单位：Universitat d'Alacant; University of Essex; Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP); Czech Academy of Sciences; Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
摘要：The paper discusses the important role of clustering in the evolution of social networks, as it affects not only the incentives of players to cooperate but also their ability to search for fresh opportunities. Depending on the volatility of the environment and the social convention in place, we show that network clustering endogenously adapts to achieve and maintain, to the extent possible, a state of high social connectivity in the long run.
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作者：Bohnet, I; Harmgart, H; Huck, S; Tyran, JR
作者单位：Harvard University; University of London; University College London; University of Copenhagen
摘要：We examine the effects of different forms of feedback information on the performance of markets that suffer from moral hazard problems due to sequential exchange. As orthodox theory would predict, we find that providing buyers with information about sellers' trading history boosts market performance. More surprisingly, this beneficial effect of incentives for reputation building is considerably enhanced if sellers, too, can observe other sellers' trading history. This suggests that two-sided m...
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作者：Cifuentes, R; Ferrucci, G; Shin, HS
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper explores liquidity risk in a system of interconnected financial institutions when these institutions are subject to regulatory solvency constraints and mark their assets to market. When the market's demand for illiquid assets is less than perfectly elastic, sales by distressed institutions depress the market prices of such assets. Marking to market of the asset book can induce a further round of endogenously generated sales of assets, depressing prices further and inducing further s...
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作者：Field, E
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper examines the effect of changes in tenure security on residential investment in urban squatter neighborhoods. To address the endogeneity of property fights, I make use of variation in ownership status induced by a nationwide titling program in Peru. In a difference-in-difference analysis, I compare the change in housing investment before and after the program among participating households to the change in investment among two samples of nonparticipants. My results indicate that stre...
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作者：Kübler, D; Weizsäcker, G
作者单位：Technical University of Berlin; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：Yes, they are. We consider data from experimental cascade games that were run in different laboratories, and find uniformly that subjects are more willing to follow the crowd, the bigger the crowd is-although the decision makers who are added to the crowd should in theory simply follow suit and hence reveal no information. This correlation of length and strength of cascades appears consistently across games with different parameters and different choice sets for the subjects. It is also observ...
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作者：Del Negro, M; Schorfheide, F
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Atlanta; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper uses a novel method for conducting policy analysis with potentially misspecified DSGE models and applies it to a simple New Keynesian DSGE model. We illustrate the sensitivity of the results to assumptions on the policy invariance of model misspecifications.
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作者：Banks, J; Blundell, R; Emmerson, C
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We examine the possible consequences of the increasing shift from Defined Benefit to Detined Contribution arrangements for private pensions. Whilst much analysis has focused on the possible distribution of investment and job tenure risk, we point out the additional role for issues relating to adverse selection and to retirement incentives. These issues are illustrated using empirical evidence from the United Kingdom, where the fact that private pensions are an alternative, as opposed to a supp...
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作者：Choi, JP
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：Patent protection has gradually expanded over time, and many patents of suspect value are routinely granted owing to the lack of rigorous scrutiny in the examination process. This has resulted in the recent explosion of patents granted and potentially creates a patent thicket that hinders future innovation. I investigate the question of whether the litigation process can be relied on to restore competition when an imperfect market outcome is sustained through patents of suspect value. The anal...
