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Estimating an equilibrium model of horizontal competition in education
Bau, Natalie - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182196
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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523101
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Business as Usual : Bank Net Zero Commitments, Lending, and Engagement
Sastry, Parinitha; Verner, Emil; Marqués Ibáñez, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use administrative credit registry data from Europe to study the impact of voluntary lender net zero commitments. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544681
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Organizing a Kingdom
Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
European parliaments--a blueprint for Western Europe's institutional framework that promoted state-formation and economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576570
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Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers
Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help to preempt such contests under different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226142
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Do the Retired Elderly in Europe Decumulate Their Wealth? The Importance of Bequest Motives, Precautionary Saving, Public Pensions, and Homeownership
Horioka, Charles; Ventura, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to examine the wealth accumulation (saving) behavior of the retired elderly in Europe. To summarize … our main findings, we find that less than half of the retired elderly in Europe are decumulating their wealth and that the … average wealth accumulation rate of the retired elderly in Europe is positive though relatively moderate (6.6% over a 3-year …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388826
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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388879
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More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility
Conwell, Lucas J.; Eckert, Fabian; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We propose a theory-inspired measure of the accessibility of a city's center: the size of the surrounding area from which it can be reached within a specific time. Using publicly available optimal-routing software, we compute these "accessibility zones" for the 109 largest US and European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537771
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Labor Supply Shocks and Capital Accumulation : The Short and Long Run Effects of the Refugee Crisis in Europe
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Opromolla, Luca David; Parro, Fernando; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, and endogenous capital accumulation. We find that real GDP increases in Europe in the long term, with large distributional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537773
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Were COVID and the Great Recession Well-being Reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We show individuals' reports of subjective well being in Europe did decline in the Great Recession and during the Covid … has been rising in the last decade. However, so too have negative affect in Europe and despair in the USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322884