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We use a new firm-level dataset to examine the efficiency of investment in emerging economies. In the three-year period following stock market liberalizations, the growth rate of the typical firm's capital stock exceeds its pre-liberalization mean by an average of 5.4 percentage points....
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producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance …
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We investigate how criminal organizations strategically use violence to influence elections in order to get captured politicians elected. The model offers novel testable implications about the use of pre-electoral violence under different types of electoral systems and different degrees of...
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We document that the recent house price experiences within an individual's social network affect her perceptions of the attractiveness of property investments, and through this channel have large effects on her housing market activity. Our data combine anonymized social network information from...
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We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to their neighbors generally and more connected to neighbors of the same race or ethnic group. Both results are consistent with networks producing better job matches, while the...
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In this paper, we estimate the influence of social relationships on educational attainment and social outcomes of students in school. More specifically, we investigate how losing different types of social relationships during the transition from elementary to middle school affect students'...
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In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In countries with greater barriers to entry and imperfect competition, the reallocation process may be inefficient. Therefore, for developing countries, an open question is whether...
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face uninsurable risks. We simulate a stylized 50-percent privatization using an overlapping-generations model where … insurable, privatization produces about $21,900 of new resources for each future household (growth adjusted over time) after all …, privatization reduces efficiency by about $5,600 per future household despite improved labor supply incentives …
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While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …
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among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …
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