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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
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This paper provides evidence of heterogeneous treatment effects on trade from switching among three types of de-facto exchange rate regimes: freely floating, currency bands, and pegs or currency unions. A cottage literature at the interface of macroeconomics and international economics focuses...
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We document the presence of multiple and varied constraints to small and medium firm growth. This presents both a practical problem for business training programs and a challenge to academic economists trying to identify mechanisms though which these programs may affect outcomes. External...
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This paper offers an informational explanation for asset price booms and crashes. If market fundamentals change, but the length of this process of change is unknown, market participants try to learn about it by observing market outcomes. This learning generates a boom and a crash, which we call...
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We analyse the impact of increased outside opportunities brought to consumers by access to a global market on local market performance under monopoly versus oligopoly. If consumers have to choose once where to shop we show that under all forms of organizing the local market, increased...
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Expansion in mobile phone coverage has improved access to information throughout the developing world, particularly … within sub-Saharan Africa. The existing evidence suggests that information technology has improved market efficiency and … data from a farmer-level survey: we find that farmers owning mobile phones obtain more price information but do not engage …
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quality information, price information, and horizontal match information. Equilibrium is unique whenever advertising is … information. For a given quality level, as a function of consumer visit costs, first quality information is disclosed, then price … information and then horizontal product information are added to the advertising mix. Some suggestive evidence is provided from …
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information transmission. In the case of uniform tariff, we argue that a positive price-cap on the charge to content is optimal … (with no constrain on the consumer side). Proposing menus helps signaling useful information to consumers and therefore …
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information and correlated between them. The principals benchmark their agents against each other by making the same offers in the …
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Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger … parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if … increased support for challengers and higher political participation. We provide experimental evidence that information about …
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