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Open Source Software : The New Intellectual Property Paradigm
Maurer, Stephen M. - 2006
Open source methods for creating software rely on developers who voluntarily reveal code in the expectation that other developers will reciprocate. Open source incentives are distinct from earlier uses of intellectual property, leading to different types of inefficiencies and different biases in...
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Generalized Separability and Integrability : Consumer Demand with a Price Aggregator
Fally, Thibault - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends on other prices only through a common price aggregator (a scalar function of all prices). We refer to this property as ``generalized separability'' and provide the functional forms of demand that this property implies when...
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Integrability and Generalized Separability
Fally, Thibault - 2018
This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends only on its own price, consumer income, and a single aggregator synthesizing information on all other prices. This generalizes directly-separable preferences where the Lagrange multiplier provides such an aggregator. As...
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Continuous-Time Methods for Integrated Assessment Models
Cai, Yongyang - 2012
Continuous time is a superior representation of both the economic and climate systems that Integrated Assessment Models …. The numerical analysis literature offers many reliable methods, and should be used because alternatives derived from … difference methods from numerical analysis produces far superior approximations than do simple discrete-time systems …
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes...
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It All Starts with Beliefs : Addressing the Roots of Educational Inequities by Shifting Parental Beliefs
List, John A.; Pernaudet, Julie; Suskind, Dana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
parents of higher SES being more likely to believe that parental investments impact child development. We then use two field …
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What Do You Think About Climate Finance?
Stroebel, Johannes; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We survey 861 finance academics, professionals, and public sector regulators and policy economists about climate finance topics. They identify regulatory risk as the top climate risk to businesses and investors over the next five years, but they view physical risks as the top risk over the next...
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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, economic integration with non-democratic partners has no impact on either individuals' attitudes or countries' institutions. We …
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Stubborn Beliefs in Search Equilibrium
Menzio, Guido - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I study a search equilibrium model of the labor market in which workers have stubborn beliefs about their labor market prospects, i.e. beliefs about their probability of finding a job and the wage they will earn that do not respond to aggregate fluctuations in fundamentals. I show that, when...
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Support for Paid Family Leave among Small Employers Increases during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The United States is one of the few countries that does not guarantee paid family leave (PFL) to workers. Proposals for PFL legislation are often met with opposition from employer organizations, who fear disruptions to business, especially among small employers. But there has been limited data...
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