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Understanding Social Interactions : Evidence from the Classroom

De Giorgi, Giacomo - 2013

Little is known about the economic mechanisms leading to the high level of clustering in behavior commonly observed in the data. We present a model where agents can interact according to three distinct mechanisms, and we derive testable implications which allow us to distinguish between the...

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Country studies

Blanchard, Olivier (contributor) - 1994

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The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy in Europe : Evidence from Banks' Balance Sheets

Favero, Carlo A. - 1999

implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …

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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake

Karajvanov, Alexander K.; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

France, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in … (around 6 mln) and Germany (around 3.5 mln) 11 to 16 weeks after the proof of vaccination mandate announcements …

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Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?

Aguiar, Mark A. - 2020

Many households hold little wealth, especially liquid wealth. In precautionary savings models, absent preference heterogeneity, these households should display not only higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), but also lower average propensities to consume (APCs) and higher future...

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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces

Boeri, Tito - 2019

Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …

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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Answering the Queen : Machine Learning and Financial Crises

Fouliard, Jeremy - 2020

Financial crises cause economic, social and political havoc. Macroprudential policies are gaining traction but are still severely under-researched compared to monetary policy and fiscal policy. We use the general framework of sequential predictions also called online machine learning to forecast...

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Old Europe ages : Reforms and Reform Backlashes

Boersch-Supan, Axel H. - 2010

This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …

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