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Competition Laws, Governance, and Firm Value

Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Xie, Wensi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do antitrust laws influence corporate valuations? We evaluate the relationship between firm value and laws limiting firms from engaging in anticompetitive agreements, abusing dominant positions, and conducting M&As that restrict competition. Using firm-level data from 99 countries over the...

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Dampening General Equilibrium : Incomplete Information and Bounded Rationality

Angeletos, Marios; Lian, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review how realistic frictions in information and/or rationality arrest general equilibrium (GE) feedbacks. In one specification, we maintain rational expectations but remove common knowledge of aggregate shocks. In another, we replace rational expectations with Level-k Thinking or a smooth...

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Noisy Foresight

Chakraborty, Anujit; Kendall, Chad W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Rational agents must perform backwards induction by thinking contingently about future states and actions, but failures of backwards induction and contingent reasoning are ubiquitous. How do boundedly-rational agents make decisions when they fail to correctly forecast actions in the future? We...

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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities

Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment. By constructing a global city data set that covers the...

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International Climate Agreements and the Scream of Greta

Maggi, Giovanni; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Current policies directed at mitigating global warming appear unlikely to prevent temperatures from rising to levels that would trigger a precipitous increase in the costs of climate change. Various attempts at international cooperation to avoid this outcome have failed. Why is this problem so...

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Natural and Neutral Real Interest Rates : Past and Future

Obstfeld, Maurice - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper surveys the decline in real interest rates in advanced and emerging economies over the past several decades, linking that process to a range of global factors that have operated with different force in different periods. The paper argues that estimates of long-run equilibrium real...

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Exchange Rate Models are Better than You Think, and Why They Didn't Work in the Old Days

Engel, Charles; Wu, Steve P. Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Exchange-rate models fit very well for the U.S. dollar in the 21st century. A "standard" model that includes real interest rates and a measure of expected inflation for the U.S. and the foreign country, the U.S. comprehensive trade balance, and measures of global risk and liquidity demand is...

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Global Hegemony and Exorbitant Privilege

Pflueger, Carolin E.; Yared, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We present a dynamic two-country model in which military spending, geopolitical risk, and government bond prices are jointly determined. The model is consistent with three empirical facts: hegemons have a funding advantage, this advantage rises with geopolitical tensions, and war losers suffer...

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Fair Trade Agreements

Passarelli, Francesco; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The legitimacy of the world trading system is under growing attack, as challenges to its conformity with norms of … fairness and social justice are increasingly voiced by citizens and their governments around the world. Taking a novel "bottom …-related fairness concerns of their citizens. More generally, our findings point to a detailed understanding of real-world perceptions …

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The Female Happiness Paradox

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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