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capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …
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regressors and (ii) the choice of cluster bandwidth. Finally, we provide a companion statistical package (acreg) enabling users …
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capital stock. After classifying the 17 Spanish regions into high and low unemployment groups using kernel and cluster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550520
The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...
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The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168444
that "adversarial" preferences - competitiveness, negative reciprocity, distrust, and selfishness - are strong predictors …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …
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differences in competitiveness, risk tolerance, and confidence relative to performance in a large, stratified sample of the U … females. These traits predict individual income. Competitiveness and risk tolerance help explain the White gender income gap …. Competitiveness also affects the Black-White income gap between men. Confidence about one's performance helps explain a substantial …
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This paper aims to measure differences in risk behavior among expert chess players. The study employs a panel data set on international chess with 1.4 million games recorded over a period of 11 years. The structure of the data set allows us to use individual fixed-effect estimations to control...
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Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour … costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and … companies can be also observed in some countries. Higher prices impede firm competitiveness in at least two ways: a) investments …
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competitiveness and risk, this paper investigates whether these behavioral biases and preferences explain gender differences in … college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … in overconfidence and competitiveness explain about 18% of the gender gap in earnings expectations. These experimental …
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