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The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade : Embassies as Export Promotion
Rose, Andrew K. - 2005
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and …
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Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Dube, Arindrajit - 2011
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a simple model to explain why a powerful importer country like the United States may provide political support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions due to the fact that an importer country should have...
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The political economy of American trade policy
Krueger, Anne O. (ed.) - 1996
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Participation and Investment Decisions in a Retirement Plan : The Influence of Colleagues' Choices
Duflo, Esther - 2000
This paper investigates whether peer effects play an important role in retirement savings decisions. We use individual data from the staff of a university to study whether individual decisions to enroll in a Tax Deferred Account plan sponsored by the university (and the choice of the mutual fund...
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The Growing Importance of Decision-Making on the Job
Deming, David J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
demand for decision-making and explores the consequences for life-cycle earnings. Career earnings growth in the U.S. more … substantial share of this shift is explained by increased employment in decision-intensive occupations, which have longer and more … gradual periods of earnings growth. To understand these patterns, I develop a model that nests decision-making in a standard …
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A (Dynamic) Investigation of Stereotypes, Belief-Updating, and Behavior
Coffman, Katherine B.; Ugalde Araya, Paola; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
analyze the dynamic effects of feedback on beliefs about own performance and decision-making across two different domains …
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The Subjective Inflation Expectations of Households and Firms : Measurement, Determinants, and Implications
Weber, Michael; D'Acunto, Francesco; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Who Protests, What Do They Protest, and Why?
Chenoweth, Erica; Hamilton, Barton Hughes; Lee, Hedwig; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine individuals' decisions to attend protests during the summer of 2020. Our analysis examines two simultaneous movements: Black Lives Matter along with protests calling for less stringent public health measures to combat the COVID-19 (e.g., for swifter reopening of businesses). Our...
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Individual and Collective Information Acquisition : An Experimental Study
Reshidi, Pëllumb; Lizzeri, Alessandro; Yariv, Leeat; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such information-collection processes. We consider decisions … decision accuracies over time. Furthermore, groups using majority rule yield especially hasty and inaccurate decisions …
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