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We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001 …-track professors, but is ten percentage points lower than the share of women among assistant professors. Finally, within conference …
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Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This …
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that firms that "cast" their conference calls by disproportionately calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the …
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Spain together with Scotland are two countries that exhibit the largest expansions in long term care (LTC) in the last … care, which is now partially subsidized by a caregiving subsidy as part of SAAD. Long-term care spending in Spain amounts …
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This paper provides empirical evidence of favoritism by agents, where that favoritism is generated by social pressure. To do so, we explore the behavior of professional soccer referees. Referees have discretion over the addition of extra time at the end of a soccer game (called injury time), to...
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One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …
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implement a case-study on the response of banks in France, Germany, Italy and Spain to a monetary tightening. The episode we …
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We describe the historical evolution of the Spanish Social Security system and its current organization. Our attention concentrates on the main public pension scheme for private employees in the manufacturing and service sector (RGSS) which covers by far the largest majority of Spanish workers....
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prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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This paper compares the labor market implications of the health insurance system in Spain and in the United States … that in Spain, unlike the United States, essentially all heads of household work in the covered sector and thus have a full …
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