Attribution and Reciprocity in a Simulated Labor Market: An Experimental Investigation
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Gary Charness; Resumen : While papers such as Akerlof and Yellen (1990) and Rabin (1993) argue that psychological considerations such as fairness and reciprocity are important in individual decision-making, there is littl...
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Surviving in a Competitive Spatial Market: The Threshold Capture Model
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Daniel Serra; Charles Revelle; Ken Rosing; Resumen : Most facility location decision models ignore the fact that for a facility to survive it needs a minimum demand level to cover costs. In this paper we present a decisio...
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Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Adriana Kugler; Giovanni Pica; Resumen : Labor market regulations have often being blamed for high and persistent unemployment in Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to ...
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A Comparison of Stock Market Mechanisms
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Giovanni Cespa; Resumen : This paper studies the relationship between the amount of public information that stock market prices incorporate and the equilibrium behavior of market participants. The analysis is framed in a ...
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Flexible Multivariate GARCH Modeling with an Application to International Stock Markets
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Olivier Ledoit; Pedro Santa Clara; Michael Wolf; Resumen : The goal of this paper is to estimate time-varying covariance matrices. Since the covariance matrix of financial returns is known to change through time and is an...
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A Model of Market-Making
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Nicolaas J. Vriend; Resumen : The two essential features of a decentralized economy taken into account are, first, that individual agents need some information about other agents in order to meet potential trading partner...
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Judges' Cognition and Market Order
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Benito Arruñada; Veneta Andonova; Resumen : We argue that during the crystallization of common and civil law in the 19th century, the optimal degree of discretion in judicial rulemaking, albeit influenced by the comparati...
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Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Joel Shapiro; Resumen : Wage inequality in the United States has grown substantially in the past two decades. Standard supply-demand analysis in the empirics of inequality (e.g.Katz and Murphy (1992)) indicates that we ma...
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A Dilution Cost Approach to Financial Intermediation and Securities Markets
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Patrick Bolton; Xavier Freixas; Resumen : This paper proposes a model of financial markets and corporate finance, with asymmetric information and no taxes, where equity issues, Bank debt and Bond financing may all co-exis...
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Market Institutions and Judicial Rulemaking
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Benito Arruñada; Veneta Andonova; Resumen : Assuming that the degree of discretion granted to judges was the main distinguishing feature between common and civil law until the 19th century, we argue that constraining judi...
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The Impact of Firing Costs on Turnover and Unemployment: Evidence from the Colombian Labour Market Reform
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Adriana D. Kugler; Resumen : Reductions in firing costs are often advocated as a way of increasing the dynamism of labour markets in both developed and less developed countries. Evidence from Europe and the U.S. on the im...
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Do Market Conditions Affect Preferences? Evidence from Experimental Markets with Excess Supply and Excess Demand
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Jordi Brandts; Gary Charness; Resumen : We study whether people's preferences in an unbalanced market are affected by whether they are on the excess supply side or the excess demand side of the market. Our analysis is bas...
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Sovereign Risk, Anonymous Markets, and the Effects of Globalization
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Fernando Broner; Jaume Ventura; Resumen : The goal of this paper is to study the e¤ects of globalization on the workings of financial markets. We adopt a "technological" view of globalization, which consists of an exogeno...
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Giffen Goods and Market Making
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Giovanni Cespa; Resumen : This paper shows that information effects per se are not responsible for the Giffen goods anomaly affecting competitive traders demands in multi- asset, noisy rational expectations equilibrium m...
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The Provision on Non-audit Services by Auditors: Let the Market Evolve and Decide
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Benito Arruñada; Resumen : The provision of non-audit services by auditors to their audit clients reduces total costs, increases technical competence and motivates more intense competition. Furthermore, these services do ...
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Labour Market Formation Patterns in Nineteenth Century Catalonia
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Enriqueta Camps; Resumen : In this paper we portray the features of the Catalan textiles labour market in a period of technological change. Supply and demand for labour as well as a gendered view of living standards are p...
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Implications of Dynamic Trading for Insurance Markets
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: José Penalva; Resumen : We study the interaction between insurance and capital markets within single but general framework.We show that capital markets greatly enhance the risk sharing capacity of insurance markets and th...
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Interbank Market Integration under Asymmetric Information
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Xavier Freixas; Cornelia Holthausen; Resumen : We argue that the main barrier to an integrated international interbank market is the existence of asymmetric information between different countries, which may prevail in sp...
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Reputation and Honesty in a Market for Information
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Colabora: Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa Autor/es: Gary Charness; Nuno Garoupa; Resumen : Previous works on asymmetric information in asset markets tend to focus on the potential gains in the asset market itself. We focus on the market for information and conduct an exper...
