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Online marketplaces for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, a large fraction of the workforce is affiliated with small, autonomous intermediary organizations that are widespread within these markets. This paper shows that...
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Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries - called outsourcing agencies - have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality....
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theory to derive the spot prices of permits and suggest hedging formulas using a local risk minimisation approach. We also …
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One possible explanation for the unsatisfactory implementation of IMF conditionality has been attributed to the lack of credibility of the IMF threat of interrupting financial assistance in case of non compliance with the negotiated conditions. In this paper we suggest that such lack of...
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We study the decision of when to invest in an indivisible project whose value is perfectly observable but driven by a parameter that is unknown to the decision maker ex ante. This problem is equivalent to an optimal stopping problem for a bivariate Markov process. Using filtering and martingale...
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manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
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ignoring the dynamic nature of credit risk could lead to a severe underestimation of credit risk (e.g. by a factor of up to 1 …
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a deeper understanding as to why the economy lacks in specific areas of risk sharing arrangements. As well, it can point … to areas where the economy's risk sharing capability can be enhanced. Using household data from the Panel Study of Income … Dynamics, we find that a negligible amount of risk (around 10%) is shared in the aggregate, about 50% is shared within regions …
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risk information in the global economy. The paper examines the current state of the financial risk framework, notes its … place. The proposed open-source financial risk model separates the dual function that internal risk models perform within … financial institutions, first to attempt to optimize the risk-return profile of mostly private economic rent-seeking entities …
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Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth people. This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by social networking sites, based on...
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