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One Foe, so Many Fights. Making Sense of Covid-19 Policies
Kempf, Hubert - 2020
This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
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Rescue Policies for Small Businesses in the COVID-19 Recession
Nola, Alessandro Di; Kaas, Leo; Wang, Haomin - 2022
While the COVID-19 pandemic had a large and asymmetric impact on firms, many countries quickly enacted massive business rescue programs which are specifically targeted to smaller firms. Little is known about the effects of such policies on business entry and exit, factor reallocation, and...
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Affecting Public Support for Economic Policies : Evidence from a Survey Experiment About Rent Control in Germany
Dolls, Mathias; Schüle, Paul; Windsteiger, Lisa - 2023
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents’ agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of...
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The Asymmetric Impact of Economic Policy and Oil Price Uncertainty on Inflation : Evidence from Developed and Emerging Economies
Anderl, Christina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2023
This paper examines the asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and oil price uncertainty (OPU) on inflation by using a Nonlinear ARDL (NARDL) model, which is compared to a benchmark linear ARDL one. Using monthly data from the 1990s until August 2022 for a number of developed and...
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Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Encourage Gambling? Evidence from the Chinese Welfare Lottery Market
Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; de Haan, Jakob - 2023
This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that EPU increases the demand for hope which raises the willingness to pay for lottery tickets, resulting in higher lottery sales. We estimate a...
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Maquiladoras and informality: A mixed blessing
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - 2011
Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a … market outcomes in Mexico. We develop a heterogeneous firm model with imperfect labor markets that captures salient features …
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Spotlight on Spatial Environmental Policy Spillovers : An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities
Hecker, Lutz Philip - 2018
Mexico. However, wastewater treatment levels also differ greatly among the 2,456 Mexican municipalities. We apply spatial …
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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Utar, Hale - 2019
Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … significant distortive effects of the Mexican Drug War on domestic industrial development in Mexico and suggest that the Drug War …
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The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition : Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants
Kikkawa, Ayumu Ken - 2019
This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants’ prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices separately into markups and marginal costs. We then...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Public Infrastructure on Productivity Performance of Mexican Industry
Mamatzakis, Emmanuel C. - 2021
It has been frequently quoted in the literature that one decisive cause of the productive performance of an economy might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in...
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