We estimate Okun coefficients for five different age cohorts for several Eurozone countries. We find a stable pattern for all countries: The relationship between business-cycle fluctuations and the unemployment rate is the strongest for the youngest cohort and gets smaller for the elderly cohorts.
The pilot field work for the third wave of the "Life in Kyrgyzstan" (LiK) panel survey took place in August 2012 in Tokmok (for urban population) and Chui oblast (Alamydin/Pokrovka: for rural population). In total, 30 households were interviewed with the Russian version of the questionnaires. Bakhrom Mirkasimov led the pilot process in Kyrgyzstan for two weeks. Based on the pilot test results ...
Vortrag: Prof. Gunter Stephan, Ph.D., Universität Bern | NCCR Climate | Oeschger Center of Climate Research (OCCR)Kommentar: Monika Griefahn, Geschäftsführerin der Monika Griefahn GmbH | Institut für Medien Umwelt KulturModeration: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW BerlinNach den bisherigen, wenig hoffnungsvollen internationalen Klimapolitikverhandlungen setzen viele darauf,...
Sindu Workneh Kebede was at Aix-Marseille-Université/France for a research visit from 2 June to 9 July 2012. During her stay, she worked with Prof. Christophe Muller on a collaborative research work entitled“Relationship between multiple shocks and responses: Evidence from Young Lives data in Ethiopia”. In addition, she interacted with other professors and doctoral students from ...
TAMNEAC will hold its second Workshop on 9-11 October 2012 hosted by the Institute of Development Studies. The annual workshop will focus on skills development, including communication and project management skills in development and conflict-affected settings. A mid-term review meeting with representatives of the Research Executive Agency will also take place during the workshop.
The 8th Annual HiCN Workshop and 2nd AMSE Economic Development Conference will take place in Aix-en-Provence on 3-4 December 2012 and is jointly organized by the Aix-Marseille School of Economics and the Households in Conflict Network.This year’s workshop will have a focus on the relationship between violent conflict and socio-economic development. We invite submissions that address key...
Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future growth. Since 2006, the majority of countries ...
Consumers increasingly prefer to bundle their purchases into a single shopping trip, inducing complementaries between initially independent or substitutable goods. Taking this one-stop shopping behavior into account, we show that slotting fees may emerge as a result of a rent-shifting mechanism in a three-party negotiation framework, where a monopolistic retailer negotiates sequentially with two suppliers ...
