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Bloom, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

question, the evidence suggests uncertainty is damaging for short-run investment and hiring, but there is some evidence it may …

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Putting Citizens First : Portuguese Experience in Public Management Reform No. 13

1996

The Public Management Occasional Papers are specialised reports prepared for the work of the OECD's Public Management Committee. This publication focuses on the reform strategies used in Portugal. The success or failure of reforms depends largely on how the questions of "how to start" and "how...

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Are Grouping and Selecting Students for Different Schools Related to Students' Motivation to Learn?

OECD - 2014

On average across OECD countries, students who are highly motivated to learn mathematics because they believe it will help them later on score better in mathematics – by the equivalent of half a year of schooling – than students who are not highly motivated. Students’ motivation to learn...

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The effects of online disclosure about personalised pricing on consumers : Results from a lab experiment in Ireland and Chile

OECD - 2021

a laboratory experiment on the effects that online disclosures about personalised pricing have on consumers. Results … from the experiment suggest that online disclosures have only limited effects on consumers’ ability to identify and …

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Teaching for climate action

OECD - 2022

Teachers play a crucial role in our response to the global climate crisis. But how can teachers help all learners develop the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that will enable them to exercise agency and take individual and collective climate action? From July 2021 to December 2021, the...

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Measuring the joint distribution of household income, consumption and wealth at the micro level : methodological issues and experimental results

Balestra, Carlotta; Oehler, Friderike - Europäische Kommission / Statistisches Amt; OECD - 2023 - Edition 2023

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Perceptions of risk : an experimental approach using internet questionnaires

Cowell, Frank; Cruces, Guillermo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …' rankings of uncertain prospects in terms of risk and their relationship to individual preferences. We examine three interlinked … propositions that are fundamental to the standard economic approach to risk: (i) that rankings by risk are simply the reverse of …

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Attitudes towards risk and inequality : a questionnaire-experimental approach

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using … a novel mult-country questgionnaire experiment we examine the basis for this claim in terms of respondents …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard …

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International Capital Mobility and Financial Fragility - Part 5. Do Investors Disproportionately Shed Assets of Distant Countries Under Increased Uncertainty?: Evidence from the Gl...

Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et …; … - 2012

The global crisis of 2008-09 went in hand with sharp fluctuations in capital flows. To some extent, these fluctuations may have been attributable to uncertainty-averse investors indiscriminately selling assets about which they had poor information, including those in geographically distant...

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Asset pricing with limited risk sharing and heterogeneous agents

Gomes, Francisco; Michaelides, Alexander - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

simultaneously matching stock market participation and individual asset holdings. The high risk premium is driven by incomplete risk … negligible impact on the risk premium, contrary to the results of models where it is imposed exogenously. …

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