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economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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publications in the top journals in three fields - Psychology, Mathematics and Economics - and develop a series of models to …
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attention in the economics literature. In this paper, we present a simple model which predicts the core symptoms of depression …
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This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...
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This essay offers a brief history of macroeconomics, together with an evaluation of what has been learned over the past several decades. It is based on the premise that the field has evolved through the efforts of two types of macroeconomist-- those who understand the field as a type of...
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During the financial crisis, life insurers sold long-term policies at deep discounts relative to actuarial value. The average markup was as low as -19 percent for annuities and -57 percent for life insurance. This extraordinary pricing behavior was due to financial and product market frictions,...
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economics, with Marshall's encouragement. But in later life, Marshall opposed granting Cambridge degrees to women and their … participation in academic economics. This paper recounts Alfred Marshall's use of gender norms, born out of a separate spheres … ideology, to promote and ingrain women's exclusion in academic economics and beyond. We demonstrate the persistence of this …
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Milton Friedman's famous 1953 essay, "The case for flexible exchange rates," deals entirely with advanced nations. An interesting question is what Friedman thought about exchange rate and monetary regimes in emerging economies. In this paper I investigate how his views on the subject evolved...
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This paper examines the influence of Irving Fisher's writings on Milton Friedman's work in monetary economics. We focus … first on Fisher's influences in monetary theory (the quantity theory of money, the Fisher effect, Gibson's Paradox, the … monetary theory of business cycles, and the Phillips Curve, and empirics, e.g. distributed lags.). Then we discuss Fisher and …
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