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positively to the product market reform in industries of countries where patent rights are strong, not where these are weak. The … positive response to the reform is more pronounced in industries in which innovators rely more on patenting than in other …
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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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predicts that the portability reform will increase internal plan switching. However, under plausible assumptions, it will not … increase external insurer switching. Moreover, the portability reform will enable unhealthier enrollees to reoptimize their …
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We study a fundamental reform of the public Disability Insurance (DI) system in Germany. Effective 2001, cohorts born … rules require work disability in any job. Using administrative data, we first show that the reform significantly reduced the …
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...
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This paper looks at the short history of the Eurozone through the lens of an evolutionary approach to forming new institutions. The euro has operated as a currency without a state, under the dominance of Germany. This has so far allowed the euro to achieve a number of design objectives, and this...
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reversed when households decumulate savings. We also conclude that closed-economy models of pension reform miss quantitatively …Population aging and pension reform will have profound effects on international capital markets. First, demographic … reform shifts old-age provision towards more pre-funding. Third, while the patterns of population aging are similar in most …
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and fiscal reform, and the issuance by individual member states of debt indexed to nominal GDP …
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