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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across 33 OECD countries between 2002 and 2014, we document...
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find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …
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regularities by developing a new firmbased trade model wherein managers are risk averse. Higher volatility induces the reallocation …
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our findings in the framework of a theoretical model in which risk affects the size of the social sector and in which …
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In this paper, we construct alternative theoretical models for exchange rates by introducing additional risk factors … macroeconomic sources of FOREX risk may be a missing factor in the exchange rate study. …
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The degree of endemic volatility in the number of firms and establishments varies considerably across industries. Examining the within-industry range of variation (max.-min.) of the number of firms over our sample period, the low and high values across U.S. manufacturing industries are 4 and...
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A sample of 11885 wage agreements, reached in the Canadian unionized sector during 1976-2000, a period of high as well as exceptionally low inflation and substantial fluctuations in nominal and real uncertainty, is used to study the determinants of key provisions of contracts such as their...
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wherin a state s representative individual may choose to marry in order to diversify his or her idiosyncratic income risk … undiversifiable risk becomes larger, and when a state s initial income and growth rate is lower. A test of the model s predictions …, using cross-sectional data for the 50 U.S. states, suggests that there is broad support for a risk sharing motive for …
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labor risk is found to be statistically significant and detrimental to entrepreneurship. The crowding-out effect of public …
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This paper reviews three important issues in the literature on international and intranational risk sharing. First, we … establish a comprehensive se t of stylized facts for consumption risk sharing within and across countries. Consistent with the … output. As pointed to by Backu s, Kehoe and Kydland (1993), this constitutes a violation of complete international risk …
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