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When studying the problem of the emergence of superstars, scholars face great difficulties in measuring talent … of outliers (superstars). In this paper we use an original dataset from the Pokemon trading card game in which (i) there …. This allows to identify superstars, i.e. individuals that are sold at a price which represents several times their …
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A stylized fact from the literature on the Micro-econometrics of International Trade and a central implication of the heterogeneous firm models from the New New Trade Theory is that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. It is argued that this exporter productivity premium is due to...
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If the disturbances of a linear regression model are skewed and/or thick-tailed, a maximum likelihood estimator is efficient relative to the customary Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimator. In this paper, we specify a highly flexible Generalized Tukey Lambda (GTL) distribution to model skewed...
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