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The Effect of Unions on Employment : Evidence from an Unnatural Experiment in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana - 2000

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …

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Smokers’ Rational Lexicographic Preferences for Cigarette Package Warnings : A Discrete Choice Experiment with Eye Tracking

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2018

We asked 97 cigarette smokers to make a series of 12 binary choices between experimental cigarette packages with varying warnings and background colors. Each smoker had to decide which of the two packages contained cigarettes less risky for his health. We tested whether the smokers, confronted...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy : Evidence from a Narrative Approach

Rojas, Diego - 2020

Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify innovations in changes in legal reserve …

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What Makes a Tax Evader?

Bergolo, Marcelo L. - 2020

evidence on this matter. In collaboration with the national tax agency in Uruguay, we address this question using a combination …

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Government Transfers and Political Support

Manacorda, Marco - 2009

We estimate the impact of a large anti-poverty cash transfer program, the Uruguayan PANES, on political support for the government that implemented it. Using the discontinuity in program assignment based on a pre-treatment eligibility score, we find that beneficiary households are 11 to 14...

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Modeling Exchange-Rate Passthrough After Large Devaluations

Burstein, Ariel - 2005

Large devaluations are generally associated with large declines in real exchange rates. We develop a model which embodies two complementary forces that account for the large declines in the real exchange rate that occur in the aftermath of large devaluations. The first force is sticky...

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Real Effects of Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization : An Analysis of Competing Theories

Rebelo, Sergio - 1995

This paper uses a unified analytical framework to assess, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the relevance of the different hypotheses that have been proposed to explain the real effects of exchange rate-based stabilizations. The four major hypotheses analyzed are: (i) the supply-side...

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Tax Audits as Scarecrows : Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Bérgolo, Marcelo L. - 2017

According to the canonical model of Allingham and Sandmo (1972), firms evade taxes by making a trade-off between a lower tax burden and higher expected penalties. However, there is still no consensus about whether real-world firms operate in this rational way. We conducted a large-scale field...

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Sovereign Default, Debt Restructuring, and Recovery Rates : Was the Argentinean “Haircut” Excessive?

Edwards, Sebastian - 2015

Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Greece. The results suggest that the haircut imposed by Argentina in its 2005 restructuring (75 …

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Tobacco Control Campaign in Uruguay : Impact on Smoking Cessation during Pregnancy

Harris, Jeffrey E. - 2014

Background. In 2005, Uruguay instituted a nationwide tobacco control campaign that has resulted in a substantial …Conclusion. Uruguay's nationwide tobacco control campaign led to a substantial increase in the likelihood that a …Data. We analyzed a nationwide registry of all pregnancies in Uruguay during 2007-2012, supplemented by data on …

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