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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2009
This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463446
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Private Sanctions
Hart, Oliver D.; Thesmar, David; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We survey a representative sample of the U.S. population to understand stakeholders' desire to see their firms exit Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences. Only 37% think that leaving Russia is a purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477220
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Military Service and Public Sector Employment : Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records
Johnson, Tim - 2019
induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479808
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Adjusting to Trade Policy : Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish
Brambilla, Irene - 2008
In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464152
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on … exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal …
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Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development : Evidence from the Sino-Soviet Alliance
Giorcelli, Michela; Li, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
1950 and 1957, the Soviet Union supported the "156 Projects" in China for the construction of technologically advanced … know-how, while others were eventually realized by China alone using domestic technology. We find that receiving both … capital goods were short-lived. The intervention generated horizontal and vertical spillovers, as well as production …
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Housing Prices, Inter-generational Co-residence, and “Excess” Savings by the Young : Evidence using Chinese Data
Rosenzweig, Mark - 2019
their individual savings rates by age. Using unique data from China that enable the re-construction of whole families and … young in China would be 21% lower if housing prices were at the same ratio to disposable incomes as that observed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480153
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Morck, Randall K. - 2005
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467625
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The Legal Origins of Financial Development : Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Ma, Chicheng; Xu, Yuchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the legal origins view of financial development. During this period, two regime changes altered the degree to which the British common and French civil law traditions held jurisdiction over the...
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