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On the Sensitivity of Aggregate Productivity Growth Rates to Noisy Measurement

Denton, Frank T. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP ON THE SENSITIVITY OF AGGREGATE … theoretical and empirical studies in economics, population, and related fields. For further information about QSEP visit our web …. 192 in the McMaster University SEDAP Research Paper Series. The Research Institute for Quantitative Studies in …

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Initial Destination Choices of Skilled-worker Immigrants from South Asia to Canada: Assessment of the Relative Importance of Explanatory Factors

Xu, Lei; Liaw, Kao-Lee - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP INITIAL DESTINATION CHOICES OF SKILLED … 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 economics, population, and related fields …

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A Note on Income Distribution and Growth

Scarth, William - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP A NOTE ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND … 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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The Adequacy of Retirement Savings: Subjective Survey Reports by Retired Canadians

Alan, Sule; Atalay, Kadir; Crossley, Thomas F. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP THE ADEQUACY OF RETIREMENT SAVINGS … 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 economics …

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Is Foreign-Owned Capital a Bad Thing to Tax?

Scarth, William - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP IS FOREIGN-OWNED CAPITAL A BAD THING … 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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Exploring the Effects of Aggregation Error in the Estimation of Consumer Demand Elasticities

Denton, Frank T.; Mountain, Dean C. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR QUANTITATIVE STUDIES IN ECONOMICS AND POPULATION QSEP EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF AGGREGATION …. 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 economics, population, and …

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Arbitration, Mediation and Cheap Talk

Goltsman, Maria; Horner, Johannes; Pavlov, Gregory; … - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2007

Consider an agent (manager,artist, etc.) who has imperfect private information about his productivity. At the beginning of his career (period 1, “short run”), the agent chooses among publicly observable actions that generate imperfect signals of his productivity. The actions can be ranked...

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Voluntary Commitments Lead to Efficiency

Kalai, Adam Tauman; Kalai, Ehud; Samet, Dov - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2007

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Do side payments help? Collective decisions and strategic delegation

Harstad, Bard - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2007

I investigate when a exible bargaining agenda, where side payments are possible, facilitates cooperation in a context with strategic delegation. On the one hand, allowing side payments may be necessary when one partys participation constraint otherwise would be violated. On the other, with side...

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Information Independence and Common Knowledge

Gossner, Olivier; Kalai, Ehud; Weber, Robert - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2007

Conditions of information independence are important in information economics and game theory. We present notions of partial independence in Bayesian environments, and study their relationships to notions of common knowledge.

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