MPRA Paper

From University Library of Munich, Germany
Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany.
Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().

Access Statistics for this working paper series.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

1158: When Little Things Mean a Lot: On the Inefficiency of Item Pricing Laws

Mark Bergen, Daniel Levy, Sourav Ray, Paul Rubin and Ben Zeliger

1153: The Spatial and Public Economics of Regions, a Theoretical and Empirical Survey

Fabien Candau

1151: Crowding-out in productive and redistributive rent seeking

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Lovat Bruno, Eric Langlais and Francesco Parisi

1150: Indemnisation des préjudices et fréquence des procès en présence d'une asymétrie d'informaion sur l'aversion au risque des parties (Compensation of damages and frequency of trials with asymmetric information on preferences of litigant parties)

Eric Langlais

1149: Criminals and risk attitude

Eric Langlais

1148: Detection avoidance and deterrence: some paradoxical arithmetics

Eric Langlais

1147: Avoiding Another Enron: The Role of the External Auditor in Financial Regulation and Supervision

Marianne Ojo

1145: Decomposing violence: terrorist murder in the twentieth century in the U.S

Gustavo Gomez-Sorzano

1144: A structural model for corporate profit in the U.S. industry

Gustavo Gomez-Sorzano

1141: Does Ramadan Have Any Effect on Food Prices: A Dual-Calendar Perspective on the Turkish Data

Mustafa Yücel

1139: Productivity shocks and Optimal Monetary Policy in a Unionized Labor Market Economy

Fabrizio Mattesini and Lorenza Rossi

1138: An endogenous profit rate cycle

Alan Freeman

1137: The dividend policy of the Portuguese corporations: Evidence from Euronext Lisbon

Jose Benzinho

1130: Selbständige und ihre Altersvorsorge: Möglichkeiten der Analyse anhand der Mikrozensen und erste Ergebnisse

Hendrik Dräther, Uwe Fachinger and Angelika Oelschläger

1129: Selbständige in der EU: Einige Anmerkungen zu den Problemen ihrer sozialen Absicherung

Uwe Fachinger

1128: The Social Embeddedness of Consumption: Towards the Relationship of Income and Expenditures over Time in Germany

Dieter Bögenhold and Uwe Fachinger

1127: Selbständige und ihre Altersvorsorge: Sozialpolitischer Handlungsbedarf?

Uwe Fachinger and Angelika Oelschläger

1126: Sparfähigkeit und Vorsorge gegenüber sozialen Risiken bei Selbständigen: Einige Informationen auf der Basis der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 1998

Uwe Fachinger

1125: Struktureller Wandel selbständiger Erwerbsarbeit: Analysen auf der Grundlage der Scientific Use Files der Mikrozensen

Dieter Bögenhold and Uwe Fachinger

1124: Konsummuster im Kontrast: Die Entwicklung unterschiedlicher Einkommensverwendungsmuster anhand verschiedener Haushaltstypen im zeitlichen Wandel

Dieter Bögenhold and Uwe Fachinger

1123: The effectiveness of official intervention in foreign exchange market in Malawi

Kisu Simwaka

1122: Dynamics of Malawi’s trade flows: a gravity model approach

Kisu Simwaka

1120: The macroeconomic effects of monetary policy and financial crisis

Mohamed Douch

1119: NIRA-3: An improved MATLAB package for finding Nash equilibria in infinite games

Jacek Krawczyk and James Zuccollo

1116: The Validity of the ELG Hypothesis in the MENA Region: Cointegration and Error Correction Model Analysis

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

1115: Government Expenditures, Military Spending and Economic Growth: Causality Evidence from Egypt, Israel and Syria

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

1114: A Versus K Revisited: Evidence from Selected MENA Countries

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

1113: Financial Development and Economic Growth: Time Series Evidence from Egypt

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

1111: Impact evaluation: the experience of the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank

Howard White

1109: FDI in the New European Neighbours of Southern Europe: a quest of institutions-based attractiveness

Nathalie Fabry and Sylvain Zeghni

1107: Credence Goods Markets with Conscientious and Selfish Experts

Ting Liu

1106: Credence Goods Markets with Conscientious and Selfish Experts

Ting Liu

1101: General Issue on the Romanian fiscal system

Dracea Raluca and Mirela Cristea

1099: Education and Wage Inequality in Portugal

Santiago Budria Rodriguez and Celso Nunes

1098: Education and Inequality: Evidence from Spain

Santiago Budria Rodriguez

1097: Asymmetric Price Adjustment in the Small

Daniel Levy, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Sourav Ray and Mark Bergen

1095: Trade, Envy and Growth: International Status Seeking in a Two-Country World

Simone Valente

1094: Monetary Policy under Rule-of-Thumb Consumers and External Habits: An International Empirical Comparison

Giovanni Dibartolomeo, Lorenza Rossi and Massimiliano Tancioni

1090: The Impact of Migration on Foreign Trade: A Developing Country Approach

Gustavo Javier Canavire Bacarreza and Laura Ehrlich

1089: Rethinking the Role of Agriculture and Agro-Industry in the Economic Development of Thailand: Input-Output and CGE Analyses (Ph.D. Dissertation)

Nalitra Thaiprasert

1085: A note on the Exclusion Principle

Paolo Bertoletti

1083: On the reserve price in all-pay auctions with complete information and lobbying games

Paolo Bertoletti

1082: Uniform pricing and social welfare

Paolo Bertoletti

1079: Picking a Winner? Evidence from the Non-Manufacturing High-Tech Industry in the Blacksburg MSA

David Bieri

1076: The role of fear in home-biased decision making: first insights from neuroeconomics

Peter Kenning, Peter Mohr, Susanne Erk, Henrik Walter and Hilke Plassmann

1074: A Preliminary Investigation of The Effects of Restrictions on Medicaid Funding for Abortions on Female STD Rates

Bisakha Sen

1072: An Interpretation of An Affine Term Structure Model for Chile

Juan Ochoa

1068: Taxation, infrastructure, and endogenous trade costs in New Economic Geography

Stefan Gruber and Luigi Marattin

1067: Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high?

Matthew Gray and Jenny Renda

1064: Vom Nutzen afrikanischer Zuwanderer für Europa. Wende in der EU-Einwanderungspolitik? (On the benefit of African immigration to Europe. Turn in the EU immigration policy?)

Dirk Kohnert

1055: Rethinking the Role of the Agricultural Sector in the Thai Economy and Its Income Distribution: A SAM Analysis

Nalitra Thaiprasert

1046: The Real Thing: Nominal Price Rigidity of the Nickel Coke, 1886–1959

Daniel Levy and Andrew Young

1045: The Roadblock of Culturalist Economics: Economic Change á la Douglass North

Elias Khalil

1042: Intergenerational Transfers, Lifetime Welfare and Resource Preservation

Simone Valente

1040: The Direction of Technical Change in Capital-Resource Economies

Corrado Di Maria and Simone Valente

1027: Nacimiento de un mercado especial. El servicio telefónico en la ciudad de México, 1881-1911

Victor Cuchi

1023: Estimating demand for money in Jamaica

Luciano Canova

1019: A Note on Numerical Estimation of Sato’s Two-Level CES Production Function

Sudhanshu Mishra

1018: Political Bad Reputation

Emanuele Canegrati

1017: Yardstick competition: a spatial voting model approach

Emanuele Canegrati

1014: Federal, State, and Local Governments: Evaluating their Separate Roles in US Growth

Matthew Higgins, Andrew Young and Daniel Levy

1013: Private vs. Official Creditors: The Record Speaks

Arturo Porzecanski

1010: Total Factor Productivity in the Malaysian Resource-Based Industries

Rozilee Asid and Mohd Safri Saiman

1005: Global Optimization by Differential Evolution and Particle Swarm Methods: Evaluation on Some Benchmark Functions

Sudhanshu Mishra

1004: An econometric specification of monetary policy dark art

Florian Ielpo and Dominique Guégan

1002: Discriminant Analysys of Default Risk

Aker Aragon

999: Healthcare Reforms in Bulgaria: Towards Diagnosis and Prescription

Konstantin Pashev

998: Fighting VAT Fraud: The Bulgarian Experience

Konstantin Pashev

994: Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece

George Bitros and Anastassios Karayiannis

991: Regulating a Monopoly Offering Priority Service

Isamu Matsukawa

981: Country Concepts and the Rational Actor Trap - Limitations to Strategic Management of International NGOs

Dirk Kohnert

980: Informality as Normality: On the Articulation of Shadow Economy and Society in Africa

Dirk Kohnert

978: Togo: a didactic drama of misled democratisation in Africa

Dirk Kohnert

977: Are Non-state Actors Better Innovators? The Ambiguous Role of Non-state Actors in the Transition Process: The Case of Benin and Madagascar

Dirk Kohnert

974: Understanding Tax Corruption in Transition Economies: Evidence from Bulgaria

Konstantin Pashev

973: Path dependent volatility

Andrea Pascucci and Paolo Foschi

972: Financial Developent and Economic Growth Nexus: Time Series Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African Countries

Suleiman Abu-Bader and Aamer Abu-Qarn

971: On the optimality of a GCC Monetary Union: Structural VAR, Common Trends and Common Cycles Evidence

Aamer Abu-Qarn and Suleiman Abu-Bader

970: Pension Liabilities and Generational Relations: The Case of Vietnam

Long Giang

969: The Pension Scheme in Vietnam: Current Status and Challenges in an Aging Society

Long Giang

968: Efficiency of Construction Firms in Vietnam

Khac Minh Nguyen and Long Giang

967: Interview with Kenneth Arrow

Juan Dubra

966: Evolution of Tax Evasion

Vilen Lipatov

965: Routes of survial of SSI in India and its futurity - a study of pre and post reform period

Adya Pandey and Shivesh

963: Trade and the distributional politics of international labour standards

Paul Oslington

962: Deus Economicus

Paul Oslington

961: Dismissal Costs and their Impact on Employment: Evidence from Australian Small and Medium Enterprises

Paul Oslington and Ben Freyens

960: Deeper Integration and Voting on the Common European External Tariff

Samia Tavares

959: The Common External Tariff in a Customs Union: Voting, Logrolling, and National Government Interests

Samia Tavares

958: Elección de planes de salud mediante técnicas de clasificación fuzzy (Health plans selection using fuzzy classification techniques)

Sonia K. Lowenthal-Quastler, Javier García-Fronti and María Teresa Casparri

954: Heterogeneous Convergence

Andrew Young, Matthew Higgins and Daniel Levy

952: The Long-run Effects of HIV/AIDS in Kenya

Ramona Bruhns

948: Estimating risk aversion from ascending and sealed-bid auctions: the case of timber auction data

Jingfeng Lu and Isabelle Perrigne

947: The beauty of "bigness" in contest design: merging or splitting?

Qiang Fu and Jingfeng Lu

946: The optimal multi-stage contest

Qiang Fu and Jingfeng Lu

945: Contest design and optimal endogenous entry

Qiang Fu and Jingfeng Lu

943: Auctions design with private costs of valuation discovery

Jingfeng Lu

942: El efecto de las intervenciones cambiarias: la experiencia colombiana 2004-2006

Mauricio Alberto Hernández Monsalve and Ramón Javier Mesa Callejas

935: When and how to dismantle nuclear weapons

Jingfeng Lu

934: Endogenous entry and auctions design with private participation costs

Jingfeng Lu