Trade and Productivity
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Francisco Alcalá; Antonio Ciccone; Resumen : We estimate the effect of international trade on average labor productivity at the country level. Our empirical approach...
Temporary Help Agencies and Workers' Occupational Mobility
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upgrading chances as opposed to those who have not been hired through these intermediaries. A screening approach to the role of...
Estimating Parliamentary Composition through Electoral Polls
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's composition. We here describe the problems arising from this approach: there is always a bias in the forecast. We study the origin...
Capital, Wages, and Growth: Theory and Evidence
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implement our approach at the city-level using US Census data on individuals in 173 cities for 1970, 1980, and 1990...
Restless Bandits, Linear Programming Relaxations and a Primal-dual Index Heuristic
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Dimitris Bertsimas; José Niño-Mora; Resumen : We develop a mathematical programming approach for the classical PSPACE - hard restless bandit problem in stochastic...
Ethics Outside, Within, or Beyond OR Models
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within models (ethics within OR models). Presenting and discussing an approach that combines OR models with the process of OR...
Testing Calibrated General Equilibrium Models
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the details of the procedure, the advantages and the disadvantages of the approach, with particular reference to the issue of...
Endogenous Bargaining Power
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Joan Esteban; József Sákovics; Resumen : We present a novel approach to N-person bargaining, based on the idea that the agreement reached in a negotiation is determined...
On a Series of Goldbach and Euler
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last approach, though, is completely in tune with Goldbach and Eulers proof. We hope to convince the reader then how, a few...
Economic Rationality and Ethical Behavior
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confidential to hide the corresponding lack of consistency. This discursive approach based on transparency and confidentiality...
