All Blog Posts Tagged 'Economic_imperialism' (4)

Behavorial economics tell us that emotions can profoundly affect individual behavoir and decision-making. Does this also apply to societies at large, i.e. can societies experience mood states that affect their collective decision making? By extension is the public mood correlate or even predective of economic indicators? Here we investigate whether measumerents of collective mood states derived from large-scale Twitter feeds are correlated to the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average…

HousingPricesAndMaritalStability.pdf

"We investigate the effect of house price changes on MSA-level divorce rates using data for 1991-2010 from the Current Population Survey and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Our findings suggest that changing house prices significantly affect divorce rates, and that these effects are assymmetric with respect to housing gains versus losses.…

importancia_economica_de_las_caracteristicas.pdf

"This paper tries to quantify economically the importance of five phonetic characteristics (seseo, yeismo, /s/-aspiration, rehilamiento, and /x/-aspiration) whose presence or absence allows to distinguish among ten regional varieties of Spanish. To do that we perform an analysis of the extension of those…

This paper uses the model Chiappori-Levitt- Groseclose (2002) to test for mixed-strategy Nash equilibria in a game between a kicker and a goalkeeper, in a situation of a soccer penalty kick. The main contribution of this paper is to develop an alternative testing methodology, based on the use of a simultaneous-equation regression approach that directly tests the equilibrium conditions. Using the same date than Chiappori, Levitt and Groseclose we find similar results than them, and we are…