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An ultimatum wage bargaining experiment on trade union efficiency
Blackwell Publishing (2011)We present an ultimatum wage bargaining experiment showing that a trade union facilitating non-binding communication among workers, raises wages by simultaneously increasing employers’ posted offers and toughening the ... -
Analyzing discrepancies between willingness to pay and willingness to accept for freight transport attributes
Elsevier (2016)In this paper we use discrete choice data to analyze asymmetries in the preference for freight transport attributes. A reference dependent utility specification allowed us to test for the existence of substantial asymmetries ... -
Anatomy of a Stablecoin’s failure: The Terra-Luna case
Elsevier (2023)We quantitatively describe the main events that led to the Terra project’s failure in May 2022. We first review, in a systematic way, news from heterogeneous social media sources; we discuss the fragility of the Terra ...
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Anchoring on Utopia: a generalization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution
Springer (2017-11-04)Many bargaining solutions anchor on disagreement, allocating gains with respect to the worst-case scenario. We propose here a solution anchoring on utopia (the ideal, maximal aspirations for all agents), but yielding ...
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Approximation of integration maps of vector measures and limit representations of Banach function spaces
Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Instytut Matematyczny (2017)We study whether or not the integration maps of vector measures can be computed as pointwise limits of their finite rank Radon Nikodym derivatives. The positive cases are obtained by using the circle of ideas related to ...
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Are bygones bygones?
Springer US (2012-08)This article reports an experiment which tests the principle of separability, i.e. that behaviour in a dynamic choice problem is independent of history and of unreachable eventualities. Although this is a well-known principle ...
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Are credit screening contracts designed for men?
Springer (2022-03-07)Access to credit is key to succeed in business. Theoretical models of credit under asymmetric information classify borrowers and grant or deny credit, typically based on incentive-compatible contracts with collateral. ...
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Are EU standards detrimental to Africa’s exports?
Elsevier (2020-06-15)The high costs of complying with standards adversely affect export competitiveness. Existing evidence suggests that the harmonisation of standards to international benchmarks reduces compliance costs and is less trade-inhibiting, ...
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Are higher wages good for business? An assessment under alternative innovation and investment scenarios
Cambridge University Press (2020)This paper aims at investigating the interplay between inequality, innovation dynamics, and investment behaviors in shaping the long-run patterns of growth of a closed economy. By extending the analysis proposed in Caiani ...
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Are international environmental policies effective? The case of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions
(2018-06-30)This is the first paper to show that participation in an international environmental agreement has some effectiveness. Our identification strategy consists of applying difference-in-differences techniques in a panel data ...
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Are regional trading agreements beneficial?. Static and dynamic panel gravity models
Elsevier (2009)This paper evaluates the effects of preferential agreements on trade between trade group members and non-members using a static and a dynamic gravity model. The gravity model is estimated using recent panel data techniques ...
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Are RTA agreements with environmental provisions reducing emissions?
Elsevier (2013-07)This paper investigates whether RTAs with environmental provisions affect relative and absolute pollution levels. In order to do so, the determinants of carbon dioxide emissions convergence are estimated for a cross-section ...
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Are the Central East European Countries Pollution Havens?
Sage (2016-09)The aim of this article is to investigate the relationship between environmental stringency and intra–European Union (EU) trade flows. Two main hypotheses are tested. First, we test whether the stringency of a country's ...
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Are the determinants of CO2 emissions converging among OECD countries?
Elsevier (2013)This paper studies convergence in CO2emission intensity (CO2 emissions over GDP) among OECD countries over the period 1960-2008 based on its determinants, namely, energy intensity (energy consumption over GDP) and the ...
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Are the transport fuel retail markets regionally integrated in Spain? Evidence from price transmission
Elsevier (2014-10)In this paper we explore whether the Spanish retail fuel markets are integrated at the regional level. We perform a comparative analysis of the transmission of international wholesale fuel prices to retail fuel prices. Our ...
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements. An empirical analysis
OECD Publishing (2018)While governments increasingly commit to incorporating environmental objectives in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), the evidence on the impact of including environmental provisions in RTAs on environmental outcomes is ...
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Asset markets in the lab: A literature review
Elsevier (2017-03)This paper aims at providing an overview of several topics that have been addressed in the field of experimental asset markets. Rather than being exhaustive in any single topic, this review is meant to gather the several ...
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Asymmetric fuel price responses under heterogeneity
Elsevier (2016-02)We explore the effect of cross-sectional aggregation of data on estimation and test of asymmetric retail fuel price responses to wholesale price shocks. The analysis is performed on data collected daily from individual ...
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Audience effects and other-regarding preferences against corruption: Experimental evidence
Elsevier (2020-10-22)We report results from an experiment in which two firms compete for a public project by submitting offers of quality and bribery to a public official. We study the impact of audience effects (transparency) and other regarding ...
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Automation, Job Polarisation, and Structural Change
Elsevier (2022-06-28)The increasing automation of tasks traditionally performed by labour is reshaping the relationship between skills and tasks of workers, unevenly affecting labour demand for low, middle, and high-skill occupations. To ...
