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Using a Satisficing Model of Experimenter Decision-Making to Guide Finite-Sample Inference for Compromised Experiments

Karapakula, Ganesh - 2020

This paper presents a simple decision-theoretic economic approach for analyzing social experiments with compromised random assignment protocols that are only partially documented. We model administratively constrained experimenters who satisfice in seeking covariate balance. We develop...

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Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015

tariff, which comprise one-quarter of the countries in the world …

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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility

Heckman, James J. - 2014

This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...

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International Prices and Endogenous Quality

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2012

will be incorporated into the next generation of the Penn World Table …

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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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Putting Things in Order : Patterns of Trade Dynamics and Growth

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

We develop a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using dis-aggregated American imports data. We find strong evidence that both countries and commodities can be ranked, consistent with the product cycle' hypothesis. Countries habitually begin to export goods to the United States...

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World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1997

This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled …

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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1995

In this paper we examine the reduction in the relative employment and wages of unskilled workers in the U.S. during the 1980's. We argue that a contributing factor to this decline was rising imports reflecting the outsourcing of production activities. In a theoretical model, we show that any...

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Market Share and Exchange Rate Pass-Through in World Automobile Trade

Feenstra, Robert C. - 1993

This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and market share for monopolistically competitive exporters. Under fairly general assumptions we show that pass-through should be high for exporters based in a country with a very large share of total destination market...

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World Real Interest Rates

Barro, Robert J. - 1990

We think of the expected real interest rate for ten OECD countries (our counterpart of the world economy) as determined … estimated the reduced form for CDP-weighted world averages of the expected short-term real interest rate and the investment … ratio over the period 1959-88. The estimates reveal significant effects in the predicted direction for world stock returns …

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