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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...
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The People and the Experts
Nordhaus, William D.; Rivers, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287318
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education : An Overview
Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next cover the evidence on the effects of financial literacy on...
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People's Understanding of Inflation
Binetti, Alberto; Nuzzi, Francesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies people's understanding of inflation--their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs--and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components--a conjoint...
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The Geography of Capital Allocation in the Euro Area
Beck, Roland; Coppola, Antonio; Lewis, Angus J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We assess the pattern of Euro Area financial integration adjusting for the role of "onshore offshore financial centers" (OOFCs) within the Euro Area. The OOFCs of Luxembourg, Ireland, and the Netherlands serve dual roles as both hubs of investment fund intermediation and centers of securities...
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The roles of immigrants and foreign students in US science, innovation, and entrepreneurship
Ganguli, Ina (ed.); Kahn, Shulamit Beth (ed.);  … - National Bureau of Economic Research / Workshop <2018, … - 2020
STEM PhDs /Ina Ganguli and Patrick Gaulé --II. Immigration policy and innovation.High-skill immigration, innovation, and … and Chungeun Yoon --III. Immigration and entrepreneurship.Immigrant entrepreneurs and innovation in the U.S. high … the links between immigration policy in determining who can come into the country and the rate of innovation among …
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The rate and direction of inventive activity revisited
Lerner, Joshua (contributor); Stern, Scott (contributor) - 2012
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Accelerating energy innovation : insights from multiple sectors
Henderson, Rebecca (ed.); Newell, Richard G. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237697
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The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
Bernstein, Shai; Diamond, Rebecca; Jiranaphawiboon, Abhisit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as … Number is assigned. We find immigrants represent 16 percent of all US inventors, but produced 23 percent of total innovation … premature inventor deaths, we find that immigrant inventors create especially strong positive externalities on the innovation …
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