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Epstein, Gil S; Weiss, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and,...

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Illegal immigration and media exposure: Evidence on individual attitudes

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Puglisi, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in the United States. We find evidence that - in...

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Capital Export, Unemployment, and Illegal Immigration

Schulze, Gunther G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper analyses capital export controls under majority voting. It is shown that individuals vote according to their factor endowment ratio. An individual’s optimal restriction is tighter, the lower their capital-labour ratio and the larger the country; it is also tighter if unemployment...

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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

with uncertainty on the migrants' supply, where an elected official can either have preferences congruent with the median …

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Macroeconomic Policy Games with Incomplete Information: Some Extensions

Driffill, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

central result of the work by Backus and Driffill and by Barro is that the uncertainty may provide an incentive for the … in two ways. First, it considers a model in which the uncertainty about the government's preferences is somewhat more … exactly the policy measures taken by the government. The analysis of the more general model of uncertainty about preferences …

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Model Misspecification and Under-Diversification

Uppal, Raman; Wang, Tan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In this Paper we develop a model of intertemporal portfolio choice where an investor accounts explicitly for the possibility of model misspecification. This work is motivated by the difficulty in estimating precisely the probability law for asset returns. Our contribution is to develop a...

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Revisiting Oligopolistic Reaction: Are FDI Decisions Strategic Complements?

Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry; Ries, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

develop a model that incorporates central features of Knickerbocker's story-oligopoly, uncertainty, and risk aversion …

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Intermediation in Innovation

Hoppe, Heidrun C.; Ozdenoren, Emre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

inventions. We find that uncertainty about the profitability of investing in new inventions generates a basis for intermediation …

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Should Firms be Required to Pay for Vocational Training?

Stevens, Margaret - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

uncertainty, deterring potential trainees, or labour market imperfections that create external benefits for firms. This paper …

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Evaluating the Minimum Asset Tax on Corporations: An Option Pricing Approach

Estache, Antonio; van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

King-Fullerton methodology cannot assess the minimum-asset tax (MAT) because it cannot handle uncertainty. We present … an alternative based on option pricing, and show how carry-over rules, depreciation conventions and uncertainty affect …

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