Theory and Empirics
An overview of the theory and empirics of lifelong learning categorization
... the theory and empirics of lifelong learning categorization This study aims to furnish a clear definition of lifelong learning categories that can be used to measure how people participate in learning ...
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The economics of secession: theory and empirics
... Alesina and Spolaore (1997) don’t take into account two other benefits: uninsurable shocks are more expensive for a smaller country, and security parameters can be a factor of size. 2 [r] ...
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Tariff Overhang and Aid: Theory and Empirics
... The tariff overhang decreases with importer market power as the terms-of-trade externality of protection stimulates negotiation partners to exert more effort to reduce the bound rate and[r] ...
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Fiscal Spending and the Environment: Theory and Empirics
... Aggregate fiscal spending is more (less) likely to raise pollution when the share of capital in the production of the dirty good and the share of the government-provided private goods [r] ...
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Theory and empirics of root causes of economic progress
... One of the major predictions of the neoclassical growth model is that given the level of technology and income at a particular point in time, and a common growth rate of technology, a country accumulating more physical ...
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Measuring Inequality by Counting Complaints: Theory and Empirics
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Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
... In order to fulfill their respective mandates, both players implement actions to collect accurate and reliable information on banks. Therefore, a positive spillover can emerge if the supervisor resorts to the auditor’s ...
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The normalized CES production function: theory and empirics
... Abstract. The elasticity of substitution between capital and labor and, in turn, the direction of technical change are critical parameters in many fields of economics. Until recently, though, the application of production ...
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Collateral Constraints in DSGE Models: Theory and Empirics
... The series plotted are consumption of nondurable goods and services, consumption of durable goods, residential invest- ment, non-residential investment, total factor productivity, corpor[r] ...
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Economic Growth and the Environment: A Review of Theory and Empirics
... Our review of empirical work shows that the existing literature has made relatively few contributions to our understanding. The Environmental Kuznet’s curve stands out as a key empirical regularity, but continued ...
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Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics
... We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random or directed s[r] ...
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Selection in Insurance Markets: Theory and Empirics in Pictures
... The competitive (zero-profit) price in this market is 6.2, leading to an efficient allocation in which everyone is insured (this case is similar to that of Panel (a) in Figure 2). Supp[r] ...
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Market Expectations and Currency Crises: Theory and Empirics
... The paper identifies the probability and expected magnitude of a devaluation of Brazilian Real in the period leading up to the end of the Brazilian pegged exchange rate regime, using dat[r] ...
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The role of human assets in economic growth: theory and empirics
... capital does not influence the growth rate after we control for Human Assets. Though the results found were informative, some extensions could be made[r] ...
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Theory and Empirics of Real Exchange Rates in Developing Countries
... This paper develops a general equilibrium model of the real exchange rate (RER) for a small open economy, taking into account often overlooked characteristics of developing economies, s[r] ...
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Theory and Empirics of Stage-Dependent Intellectual Property Rights
... In this study, we have developed a simple Schumpeterian growth model of distance to frontier to analyze the evolution of IPR protection in developing countries. Although our model is sty[r] ...
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Links between Labor Supply and Unemployment: Theory and Empirics
... A similar US-Europe divide appears for the participation series: unemployment shocks in year 2 determine the largest share of participation (98% in France, 83% in Germany and 95% in Ital[r] ...
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Serving the public interest in several ways: Theory and empirics
... our theory pre- dicts and the evidence indicates that workers in public service jobs are more altruistic, and yet make smaller donations to charity than their empirical counterparts in regular ...our theory ...
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Variety, Competition, and Population in Economic Growth : Theory and Empirics
... are diminishing technological opportunities in the sector that produces new ideas for new varieties of differentiated intermediates. Diminishing technological opportunities means that a researcher becomes less and less ...
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Measuring Health Care Quality and Value: Theory and Empirics
... From these values, we calculated the percentage of beneficiaries receiving at least one low-value service and the aggregate spending for all beneficiaries for each service and in each [r] ...
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