Using the SEC’s 2004 decision to begin publicly disclosing its comment letters, we study the consequences of increased regulatory transparency on the banking industry. Because the SEC only issues comment letters to public banks, we exploit a difference-in-differences design to examine the...

One of the important reforms for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China is to remove policy burdens. However, there are few papers that empirically discuss the economic benefits and potential mechanisms of this policy. This paper uses the separation of “Heating, Power, Water, and Estate”...

Bad indoor air quality in schools disrupts education, makes students and teachers sick, and leads to medical bills and other economic losses. Connecticut Substitute Senate Bill No. 1198 will reduce these harms, and the benefits of the bill are much larger than the costs.The net present values of...

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...

In 2022, 207.2 million manats were allocated from the state budget to finance international, country-level, and other similar events by the official Baku, and 207 million manats were forecasted for this purpose in the 2023 budget. The practice of financing international events at the expense of...

This review delves into the influence of big data analytics on project management effectiveness and project success rates. By examining applications, accomplishments, hindrances, and emerging developments in the context of big data analytics and project management, this review provides insights...

In this paper we analyse the welfare effects of the social cost of carbon, defining per capita consumption net of the cost of CO2 emissions in OECD countries from 1960 to 2019. Our results show that internalising the social cost of carbon reduced welfare by approximately 2% on average in the...

This paper uses a model combining three strands within the bioeconomic literature: spatial management, pest and nuisance management, and enforcement under different ecological dispersal processes (i.e., sink-source versus density-dependent) to illustrate the dual management policy (i.e.,...

The adoption of cultural heritage signs as trademarks entails several risks that must not be underestimated. Instead of enriching language and rhetoric devices, trademark protection restricts the freedom of future generations of authors to use affected cultural signs for new literary and...