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This paper investigates whether larger quantities of historical data affect a firm's ability to maintain market share in Internet search. We study whether the length of time that search engines retained their server logs affected the apparent accuracy of subsequent searches. Our analysis...
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collection, we develop and field a new monthly panel Survey of Business Uncertainty. The SBU began in 2014 and now covers about 1 …
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How high is unemployment? How low is labor force participation? Is obesity more prevalent among men? How large are household expenditures? We study the sources of the relevant official statistics--the Current Population Survey (CPS), the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and...
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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that these subjective investment determinants 1) capture...
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readability of privacy policies for a large sample of German firms. Germany has a system of state-level data protection …
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries … level. Weekly forecasts from our model are published at https://laurayuliu.com/covid19-panel-forecast …
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We study "habituation" to income and to status using individual panel data on the happiness of 7,812 people living in … Germany from 1984 to 2000. Specifically, we estimate a "happiness equation" defined over several lags of income and status and …
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Germany is an interesting country to study saving among older households since nearly everyone - whether in the middle … the so-called SAVE panel, specifically collected to understand economic, psychological and sociological determinants of …. We suspect large cohort differences and will study them once further waves of the SAVE panel will become available …
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The cross-sectional association between pain and unemployment is well-established. But the absence of panel data … the measurement of pain and model specification. We contribute to this literature using large-scale panel data from the … German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 2002 to 2018. We show that pain leads to job loss. Workers suffering pain …
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