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Economic uncertainty and subjective inflation expectations

Rossmann, Tobias - 2019

Measuring economic uncertainty is crucial for understanding investment decisions by individuals and firms …. Macroeconomists increasingly rely on survey data on subjective expectations. An innovative approach to measure aggregate uncertainty … uncertainty. The results provide evidence for the existence of considerable heterogeneity in individuals' response behavior and …

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Brexit, collective uncertainty and migration decisions

Auer, Daniel; Tetlow, Daniel - 2020

landscape. Uncertainty and perceptions are influential drivers when it comes to migration decisions, and yet, the literature … simultaneously associated with uncertainty perceptions. We leverage the British referendum of 2016 to leave the European Union as a … unique natural experiment to demonstrate how collective uncertainty, induced by national government policy, affects the …

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Pandemic impacts on sustainability and Hartwick's Rule

Mavi, Can Askan; Zou, Benteng - 2022

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C & C - contraction and convergence of carbon emissions: The economic implications of permit trading

Böhringer, Christoph; Welsch, Heinz - 1999

In the context of climate protection policy it has been suggested that global CO2 emissions should be reduced significantly (contraction) and that per capita emissions should gradually be equalized across countries (convergence). This paper uses a dynamic multi-region computable general...

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Cooling down hot air : a global CGE analysis of post-Kyoto carbon abatement strategies

Böhringer, Christoph - 1999

The Kyoto Protocol marks a break-through in global warming mitigation policies as it sets legally binding emissions targets for major emitting regions. However, realisation of the Protocol depends on the clarification of several issues one of which is the permissible scope of international...

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Contraction of global carbon emissions : how acceptable are alternative emission entitlement schemes?

Böhringer, Christoph - 2001

The allocation of emission entitlements across countries is the single most controversial issue in international climate policy. Extreme positions within the policy debate range from entitlements based on current emission patterns (CEP) to equal-per-capita (EPC) allocations. Convergence (COV)...

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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing

Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015

Economic development theories and their learning frameworks differently address farms and firms. This article argues that the traditional double-standard of the primacy of manufacturing rests on a debatable stages model that under-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its...

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Does income transparency affect support for redistribution? Evidence from Finland's tax day

Dunaiski, Maurice; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

This paper examines whether income transparency - the public release of citizens' income information - affects support for redistribution. We leverage a quasi-experiment in Finland, where every year on the so-called tax day, the authorities release income information on Finland's top earners to...

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Unemployment and Online Labor - Evidence from Microtasking

Laitenberger, Ulrich; Viete, Steffen; Slivko, Olga; … - 2022 - This version: April 2022

We analyze the relationship between unemployment and the supply of online labor for microtasking. Using detailed US data from a large microtasking platform between 2011 and2015, we study the participation and the number of hours supplied by workers in the US.We find that more individuals...

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Price competition and reputation in markets for experience goods : an experimental study

Huck, Steffen; Lünser, Gabriele K.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2013

We experimentally examine the effects of price competition in markets for experience goods where sellers can build up reputations for quality. We compare price competition to monopolistic markets and markets where prices are exogenously fixed (somewhere between the endogenous oligopoly and...

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