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XSEM - A Conceptual Model for XML Data
May 28, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Recently XML is the standard format used for the exchange of data between information systems and is also frequently applied as a logical database model. If the authors use XML as a logical...
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Using XSEM for Modeling XML Interfaces of Services in SOA
January 25, 2007, 12:00am PST
this paper briefly describe a new conceptual model for XML data called XSEM and how to use it for modeling XML interfaces of services in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). The model is a...
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Current Trends in Middleware Benchmarking
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper provides a brief overview of the state of the art in middleware benchmarking. The overview is used to highlight some of the outstanding issues in the area, specifically the issues...
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The Effects Of Monetary Policy In The Czech Republic: An Empirical Study
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors examine the effects of Czech monetary policy on the economy within VAR, structural VAR, and the Factor-Augmented VAR framework. They document a well-functioning...
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Deregulation, Economic Growth And Growth Acceleration
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper analyzes the influence of credit-, labor-, and product market deregulation policies on economic growth in more than 70 economies over a period of 30 years. It addresses both the issues...
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Horizontal And Vertical FDI Spillovers: Recent Evidence From The Czech Republic
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effects of Foreign Direct Investment on the sales growth rate of domestic companies in the Czech Republic. Using firm-level panel data from 1995 to 2003, it studies both...
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The Telecommunications Industry And Economic Growth: How The Market Structure Matters
January 27, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper presents an endogenous growth model where, in line with the recent empirical evidence, the telecommunications industry (telecom) is an engine of growth. In such a framework, this paper...
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How Does Monetary Policy Respond To Financial Stress?
November 14, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors examine whether and how main central banks responded to episodes of financial stress over the last three decades. They employ a new methodology for monetary policy rules estimation,...
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Determinants Of Corporate Financing Decisions: A Survey Evidence From Czech Firms
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the empirical evidence on determinants of financing decisions on the pool of respondents among financial managers of Czech firms. The theoretical section provides an...
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The Golden Rule Of Public Finance And The Productivity Of Public Capital
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper concentrates on the golden rule of public finance. It reviews the main advantages and disadvantages of the potential implementation of this rule in the European Union. Often the...
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Macroeconomics Of Microfinance: How Do The Channels Work?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent changes in the microfinance landscape are characterized by increasing patterns of its integration with national financial systems and entry of commercial banks. Microfinance is no longer...
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Were Stocks During The Financial Crisis More Jumpy: A Comparative Study
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically analysis the price jump behavior of heavily traded US stocks during the recent financial crisis. Namely, the author tests the hypothesis that the recent financial turmoil...
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Financial Development And Allocation Of External Finance
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine whether financial systems facilitate efficient allocation of resources into perspective projects. Employing European micro-level data from 1996-2005, they show that firms in...
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Strategic Informative Advertising In A Horizontally Differentiated Duopoly
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
When firms possess information about their competitors' products, their advertisements may leak extra information. The author analyzes this within a duopoly television market that lasts for two...
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Informative Advertising And Consumer Search In A Differentiated-Products Duopoly
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes informative advertising in a duopoly market with differentiated products when consumer search is costless. If consumers are fully rational, exposure to a single advertisement...
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Which Firms Benefit More From Financial Development?
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors exploit the substantial diversity in financial development of the 'Single-market' EU- 15 economies to test whether more developed financial systems are better at tackling asymmetric...
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The Role Of Policy Rule Misspecification In Monetary Policy Inertia Debate
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
Operational monetary policy rules are characterized by a parsimonious specification and are therefore prone to specification error when estimated on real data. The author devises a policy rule...
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Monetary Policy Rules And Financial Stress: Does Financial Instability Matter For Monetary
January 26, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors examine whether and how main central banks responded to episodes of financial stress over the last three decades. They employ a new methodology for monetary policy rules estimation,...
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Welfare Improving Coordination Of Fiscal And Monetary Policy
August 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Should independent monetary and fiscal policies coordinate their actions and/or targets? To examine this question the paper considers a simple reduced-form model in which monetary and fiscal...
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A Fiscal Rule That Has Teeth: A Suggestion For A ?Fiscal Sustainability Council? Underpinned By The Financial Markets
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors set out to examine an efficient fiscal-policy framework for a monetary union. They illustrate that fiscal policy's bias toward budget deficit only temporarily ceased at...
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The Relation Between The Cyclically Adjusted Budget Balance And The Growth Accounting Method Of Deriving Net Fiscal Effort
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper deals with the growth accounting method used to derive "Net fiscal effort." Net fiscal effort can then provide a clue about whether fiscal policy is expansionary or not, and, together...
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Who Borrows And Who May Not Repay?
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The authors use Household Budget Survey data to analyze the evolution of the household credit market in the Czech Republic over the period 2000-2008. They next merge their data with the Statistics...
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Rational Inattention To Discrete Choices: A New Foundation For The Multinomial Logit Model
June 21, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Often, individuals must choose among discrete alternatives with imperfect information about their values, such as selecting a job candidate, a vehicle or a university. Before choosing, they may...
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A Note On Equilibrium Uniqueness In The Baron-Ferejohn Model
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The Baron-Ferejohn multilateral bargaining model predicts a payoff-unique Stationary Subgame Perfect Equilibrium (SSPE) in which players' equilibrium strategies are not uniquely determined. In...
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Corruption, Voting And Employment Status: Evidence From Russian Parliamentary Elections
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines to what extent the distribution of votes and voting behavior of people with different employment status are affected by regional differences in corruption. Using data from the...
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Can Religion Insure Against Aggregate Shocks To Happiness? The Case Of Transition Countries
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper focuses on the effects of reforms and happiness in transition economies. Previous literature suggests that religiousness insures happiness against individual stressful life events, such...
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Measuring Skill Intensity Of Occupations With Imperfect Substitutability Across Skill Types
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In absence of a model-based measure of occupational skill-intensity, the literature on wage inequality cannot consistently track technological progress on occupational level - a key ingredient of...
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Growth Of Electoral Fraud In Non-Democracies: The Role Of Uncertainty
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Electoral fraud has become an integral part of electoral competition both in established democracies and less-than-democratic regimes. In this paper, the author studies electoral fraud in the...
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Fairness In Risky Environments: Theory And Evidence
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Theories of fairness have typically used the assumption of ex-ante known pie size. Pie size, however, is rarely known ex ante. Using three simple allocation problems generally known as dictator,...
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The Effect Of Time In A Multi-Dimensional Marriage Market Model
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In the paper, the author develops a theoretical model of a marriage market that accounts for the effect of aging on agents' wealth and physical attractiveness. Furthermore, the author uses the...
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College Degree Supply And Occupational Allocation Of Graduates The Case Of The Czech Republic
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Public funding drives much of the recent growth of college degree supply in Europe, but few indicators are available to assess its optimal level. In this paper, the author investigates an...
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Are Immigrants Paid Less For Education?
April 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by...
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Pollution Control In A Transition Economy: Do Firms Face Economies And/Or Diseconomies Of Scale?
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors empirically assess whether firms face economies and/or diseconomies of scale with respect to air pollution control by evaluating the effects of production on firmlevel air emission...
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Announced Regime Switch: Optimal Policy For Transition Period
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The novelty of this paper is the presentation of the theoretical framework that allows to model announced change of the monetary regime. The author analyzes behavior of small open economy that...
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Technological Leadership And Persistence Of Monopoly Under Endogenous Entry: Static Versus Dynamic Analysis
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors build a dynamic oligopoly model with endogenous entry in which a particular firm (leader) invests in an innovation process, facing the subsequent entry of other firms (followers). They...
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Learning In An Estimated Medium-Scale DSGE Model
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors evaluate the empirical relevance of learning by private agents in an estimated medium - scale DSGE model. They replace the standard rational expectation assumption in...
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A Theory Of Ethnic Diversity And Income Distribution
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, how the two dimensions of heterogeneity of people in society, income disparity and ethnic diversity, affect the reallocation of the income is examined. Specifically a legislative...
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Is The Stability Of Leverage Ratios Determined By The Stability Of The Economy?
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The choice of capital structure by firms is a fundamental issue in financial literature. According to a recent finding, the capital structure of firms remains almost unchanged during their lives...
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Publication Productivity Of Czech Sociology In Scientific Journals Within The Last Decade
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper maps publication outcomes of Czech sociologists in journals with impact factor within the last decade. The methodology the authors employ is similar to that used in recently published...
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Size And Value Effects In The Visegrad Countries
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper has two main objectives. The first is to test for the presence of the size and book-to-market value effects in the Visegrad countries. Such effects have been found in the United States...
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A Family of Real-Time Java Benchmarks
August 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Java is becoming a viable platform for real-time computing. There are production and research real-time Java VMs, as well as applications in both military and civil sector. Technological advances...
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The Impact Of The Non-Distribution Constraint And Its Enforcement On Entrepreneurial Choice, Price, And Quality
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the conditions under which it is rational for a representative entrepreneur to start a nonprofit firm. Taking as point of departure a model of entrepreneurial choice proposed by...
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Measuring Economics Research In The Czech Republic: A Comment
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Turnovec (2005) represents the first rigorous attempt to quantify and compare research of economists affiliated with Czech institutions as well as total output by these institutions. In this...
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Three Prominent Tournament Formats: Predictive Power And Costs
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze tournaments of heterogeneous players from an organizer's perspective. Using a simple model of a noisy tournament, they demonstrate how the likelihood of selecting the best...
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Should The Average Tax Rate Be Marginalized?
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Economic theory assumes that taxpayers use their true Marginal Tax Rate (MTR) to guide their economic decisions. However, complexity of the personal income tax system implies that taxpayers may...
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Trust And Trustworthiness In An Economy With Heterogeneous Individuals
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the determinants of trust and trustworthiness in a matching equilibrium when agents have heterogeneous predispositions towards trusting and trustworthy behavior, there is...
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Monetary Incentives: Usually Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient?
September 11, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Financial incentives are - especially in research on judgment and decision making, as the (opportunistic) sample investigated by Camerer and Hogarth (1999, see also Hertwig and Ortmann, 2003) and...
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How Big Is Big Enough? Justifying Results Of The Iid Test Based On The Correlation Integral In The Non-Normal World
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
Kocenda (2001) introduced the test for nonlinear dependencies in time series data based on the correlation integral. The idea of the test is to estimate the correlation dimension by integrating...
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Stochastic Gradient Versus Recursive Least Squares Learning
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors perform an in-depth investigation of relative merits of two adaptive learning algorithms with constant gain, Recursive Least Squares (RLS) and Stochastic Gradient (SG),...
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Mixed Competition And Welfare Under Various Nonprofit Objectives Mixed Competition Under Various Cost Configurations
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the competition between one nonprofit and one for-profit firm under various objective functions of the nonprofit firm. The two firms optimize their objectives with respect to...
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Trade Policy, Market Leaders And Endogenous Competition Intensity
October 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
It is well known that tariff policy can alleviate the negative consequences of breaching intellectual property rights by foreign firms. Yet, the positive effect of tariff protection is thought to...
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Corporate Philanthropy In The Czech And Slovak Republics
November 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the characteristics of corporate charitable behavior in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. It is the first quantitative study for transition economies, analyzing data from two...
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Multiple Advisors With Reputation
December 1, 2006, 12:00am PST
This paper examines reputation, the belief of a decision maker about types of advisors, in a two period cheap talk model where the decision maker obtains messages from two advisors. The decision...
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Persistence Of Monopoly, Innovation, And R&D Spillovers: Static Versus Dynamic Analysis
January 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors build a dynamic duopoly model that accounts for the empirical observation of monopoly persistence in the long run. More specifically, they analyze the conditions under which it is...
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Natural Resources: Are They Really A Curse?
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The curse of natural resources detected in numerous cross-country growth regressions is questioned. Although natural resource dependence is associated with slow economic growth, there is no...
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Learning By Similarity In Coordination Problems
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study a learning process in which subjects extrapolate from their experience of similar past strategic situations to the current decision problem. When applied to coordination games,...
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Are The Unskilled Really That Unaware? An Alternative Explanation
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In a series of articles and manuscripts (e.g., Kruger & Dunning, 1999, Dunning et al., 2003, Ehrlinger et al., 2005), Dunning, Kruger and their collaborators argued that the unskilled lack the...
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Classic Coordination Failures Revisited: The Effects Of Deviation Costs And Loss Avoidance
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Are communication failures common? The authors revisit a classic example of experimental coordination failure and explore, in a 2x2 design, the effects of deviation costs and loss avoidance. Their...
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The Unbundling Regime For Electricity Utilities In The EU: A Case Of Legislative And Regulatory Capture?
May 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Theory and empirics suggest that by curbing competition, incumbent electricity companies which used to be and here are referred to as Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs), can increase their...
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Valuing A Risky Prospect Less Than Its Worst Outcome: Uncertainty Effect Or Task Ambiguity?
July 7, 2007, 12:00am PDT
GLW show that when lotteries involve non-monetary outcomes and people are not explicitly prompted to value them based on valuing the outcomes, lotteries with equal or similar probabilities are...
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Can The Market Fix A Wrong Administrative Decision? Massive Delisting On The Prague Stock Exchange
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper contributes to the investigation of the emerging stock markets in transition economies, namely in the Czech Republic. The authors estimate the impact of the various determinants of...
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International Competition In Vertically Differentiated Markets With Innovation And Imitation: Trade Policy Versus Free Trade
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The important characteristic of international competition between developed and less developed countries is vertical product differentiation, where firms' quality choices represent strategic...
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Testing For Bubbles In Housing Markets: A Panel Data Approach
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors employ recently developed cross-sectionally robust panel data tests for unit roots and cointegration to find whether house prices reflect house-related earnings. They use U.S. data for...
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Determinants Of Secondary School Choice In The Czech Republic
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The admission process into secondary schools in the Czech Republic involves high risk of ending up at an undesired school if failing to be admitted to one's preferred school. Hence, the...
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Understanding The Lack Of Competition In Natural Gas Markets: The Impact Of Storage Ownership And Upstream Competition
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Motivated by the failure of competition to emerge after the natural gas market in the Czech Republic was liberalized, the author explores the impact of natural gas storage ownership and upstream...
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Self-Reputation And Perception Of Reputation
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines how the belief of decision maker regarding his ability to keep a resolution and his belief regarding what others think of him affect his actions. Higher self-reputation...
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Three Very Simple Games And What It Takes To Solve Them
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors study experimentally the nature of dominance violations in three minimalist dominance-solvable guessing games. They examine how subjects' reported reasoning processes translate into...
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The Reaction Of Asset Prices To Macroeconomic Announcements In New EU Markets: Evidence From Intraday Data
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors estimate the impact of macroeconomic news on composite stock returns in three emerging European Union financial markets (the Budapest BUX, Prague PX-50, and Warsaw WIG-20), using...
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Sequential Cheap Talk From Advisors With Reputation
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author examines two-period sequential cheap talk in situations where the decision maker seeks advice from two advisors, each of whom knows the type of the other advisor. By considering the...
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(The Evolution Of) Post-Secondary Education: A Computational Model And Experiments
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors propose a computational model to study (the evolution of) post-secondary education. "Consumers" who differ in quality shop around for desirable colleges or universities. "Firms" that...
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Tax Evasion Dynamics In The Czech Republic: First Evidence Of An Evasional Kuznets Curve
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using surveys of the Czech Republic taken in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2006 the authors measure how the percentage of tax evaders evolved from 1995 until 2006. They find that at first evasion rose,...
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Monopoly Provision Of Tune-Ins
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes a single television station's choice of airing tune-ins (preview advertisements). The author considers two consecutive programs located along a unit line. Potential viewers...
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Viewer Sampling And Quality Signaling In A Television Market
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes a single television station's choice of airing tune-ins (preview advertisements). The author considers two consecutive programs located along a unit line. Potential viewers...
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Dollarization In Transition Economies: New Evidence From Georgia
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides new evidence for dollarization in Georgia during the period from 1996 to 2007 using implications of dynamic money-in-utility-function models. Partial effects of foreign and...
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Macroeconomic Stability: Transition Towards The Nominal Exchange Rate Stability
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The novelty of this paper is in the presentation of a theoretical frame work that allows the modeling of an announced switch of the monetary regime. In the authors' experiment, the monetary...
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Stackelberg Leadership With Product Differentiation And Endogenous Entry: Some Comparative Static And Limiting Results
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Allowing for endogenous entry in the traditional Stackelberg setup with product differentiation, leads to reverting of the standard comparative static and limiting results. Unlike in the standard...
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Reversibility In Dynamic Coordination Problems
November 11, 2008, 12:00am PST
Agents at the beginning of a dynamic coordination process are uncertain about actions of their fellow players and anticipate receiving strategically relevant information later on in the process....
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Competition Policy And Market Leaders
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the potential loss in social welfare and changes in incentives to invest in R&D that result when the market leading firm is deprived of its position. They show that under...
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Economic Dynamics Under Heterogeneous Learning: Necessary And Sufficient Conditions For Stability
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author provides sufficient conditions and necessary conditions for stability of a structurally heterogeneous economy under heterogeneous learning of agents. These conditions are written in...
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Optimal Monetary Policy Rules: The Problem Of Stability Under Heterogeneous Learning
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors extend the analysis of optimal monetary policy rules in terms of stability of an economy, started by Evans and Honkapohja (2003b), to the case of heterogeneous private...
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