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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit : Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Howell, Sabrina T.; Kuchler, Theresa; Snitkof, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We explore the sources of racial disparities in small business lending by studying the $806 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which was designed to support small business jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. PPP loans were administered by private lenders but federally guaranteed, largely...

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Preparing for a Pandemic : Accelerating Vaccine Availability

Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Vaccinating the world's population quickly in a pandemic has enormous health and economic benefits. We analyze the problem faced by governments in determining the scale and structure of procurement for vaccines. We analyze alternative approaches to procurement. We find that if the goal is to...

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Preparing for a pandemic : accelerating vaccine availability

Ahuja, Amrita; Athey, Susan; Baker, Arthur; Budish, Eric B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings

Simcoe, Timothy - 2012

We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...

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Monitoring for Waste : Evidence from Medicare Audits

Shi, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper examines the tradeoffs of monitoring for wasteful public spending. By penalizing unnecessary spending, monitoring improves the quality of public expenditure and incentivizes firms to invest in compliance technology. I study a large Medicare program that monitored for unnecessary...

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Market Response to Racial Uprisings

Ba, Bocar A.; Rivera, Roman; Whitefield, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Do investors anticipate that demands for racial equity will impact companies? We explore this question in the context of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement--the largest racially motivated protest movement in U.S. history--and its effect on the U.S. policing industry using a novel dataset on...

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Estimating the Effects of Government Spending Through the Production Network

Barattieri, Alessandro; Cacciatore, Matteo; Traum, Nora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the effects of government spending along the supply chain using disaggregated U.S. government procurement data. We first identify sectoral public spending shocks and combine them with input-output tables to measure upstream and downstream exposure through the production network. We...

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The Increasing Cost of Buying American

Bombardini, Matilde; Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Li, Bingjing; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The latest resurgence in the U.S. of policies aimed at reducing imports and bolstering domestic production has included the expansion of Buy American provisions. While some of these are new and untested, in this paper we evaluate long-standing procurement limitations on the purchase of foreign...

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Contingent Trade Agreements

Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...

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Innovation : The Bright Side of Common Ownership?

Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

impediment to corporate innovation. By contrast, without technological spillovers, innovation has the effect of stealing market … share from rivals; in that case, more common ownership reduces innovation. Empirically, the association between common … ownership and innovation inputs and outputs decreases with product market proximity and increases with technology proximity. The …

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