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Population Aging, Older Workers, and Canada’s Labour Force

Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP POPULATION AGING, OLDER WORKERS, AND … Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP) is an interdisciplinary institute established at McMaster University to … encourage and facilitate theoretical and empirical studies in economics, population, and related fields. For further …

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Information Independence and Common Knowledge

Gossner, Olivier; Kalai, Ehud; Weber, Robert - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

CMS-EMS The Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management Sciences N t es t n nv er st or hw er U i iy 0 …

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The Dynamics of Climate Agreements

Harstad, Bard - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

I provide a novel dynamic model with private provision of public bads and investments in technologies. The analysis is tractable and the MPE unique. By adding incomplete contracts, I derive implications of and for international climate treaties. While the non-cooperative equilibrium is bad,...

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Diversity and Popularity in Social Networks

Bramoulle, Yann; Rogers, Brian - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

Homophily, the tendency of linked agents to have similar characteristics, is an im- portant feature of social networks. We present a new model of network formation that allows the linking process to depend on individuals types and study the impact of such a bias on the network structure. Our...

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Visiting and Office Home Care Workers’ Occupational Health: An Analysis of Workplace Flexibility and Worker Insecurity Measures Associated with Emotional and Physical Health

Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; … - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP VISITING AND OFFICE HOME CARE WORKERS … SEDAP Research Paper Series. The Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in Economics and Population (QSEP) is an … interdisciplinary institute established at McMaster University to encourage and facilitate theoretical and empirical studies in …

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What money can't buy: allocations with priority lists, lotteries and queues

Condorelli, Daniele - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

I study the welfare optimal allocation of a number of identical and indivisible objects to a set of heterogeneous risk-neutral agents under the hypothesis that money is not available. Agents have independent private values, which represent the maximum time that they are will- ing to wait in line...

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Bounding Rationality by Discounting Time

Fortnow, Lance; Santhanam, Rahul - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

Consider a game where Alice generates an integer and Bob wins if he can factor that integer. Traditional game theory tells us that Bob will always win this game even though in practice Alice will win given our usual assumptions about the hardness of factoring. We define a new notion of bounded...

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A Relationship Between Risk and Time Preferences

Saito, Kota - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

This paper investigates a general relationship between risk and time preferences. I consider a decision maker who chooses between consumption of a particular prize in one period and a different prize in another period. The individual believes that today’s good is certain, and that, as the...

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Chronic Health Conditions: Changing Prevalence in an Aging Population and Some Implications for the Delivery of Health Care Services

Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2009

Since the prevalence of many chronic health conditions increases with age we might anticipate that as the population ages the proportion with one or more such conditions would rise, as would the cost of treatment. We ask three questions: How much would the overall prevalence of chronic...

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Endogenous Limits on Proposal Power

Diermeier, Daniel; Fong, Pohan - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2009

We present a dynamic model of legislative bargaining in which policy making proceeds until the proposer has no more incentive to make a new proposal to replace the previously approved policy. We characterize stationary Markov perfect equilibria for the game and show that in all pure-strategy...

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