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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe
Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023
The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...
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Incentives, Search Engines, and the Elicitation of Subjective Beliefs : Evidence from Representative Online Survey Experiments
Grewenig, Elisabeth - 2019
A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...
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Do Survey Expectations of Stock Returns Reflect Risk-Adjustments?
Adam, Klaus - 2019
Motivated by the observation that survey expectations of stock returns are inconsistent with rational return expectations under real-world probabilities, we investigate whether alternative expectations hypotheses entertained in the asset pricing literature are consistent with the survey...
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Five Facts About Beliefs and Portfolios
Giglio, Stefano - 2019
We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of retail investors who have substantial wealth invested in financial markets. The survey elicits beliefs that are crucial for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition and...
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Limited Self-Knowledge and Survey Response Behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philipp - 2021
We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...
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Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index
Jayachandran, Seema; Biradavolu, Monica; Cooper, Jan - 2021
measure agency for 209 women in Haryana, India, first, through a semi-structured interview and, second, through a large set of … close-ended questions. We use qualitative coding methods to score each woman’s agency based on the interview, which we treat … resulting five-question index is as strongly correlated with the coded qualitative interview as is an index that uses all of the …
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Non-Standard Errors
Menkveld, Albert J. - 2021
In statistics, samples are drawn from a population in a data-generating process (DGP). Standard errors measure the uncertainty in sample estimates of population parameters. In science, evidence is generated to test hypotheses in an evidence-generating process (EGP). We claim that EGP variation...
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
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The Unfinished Business of State-Owned Enterprise Reform in the People's Republic of China
Holz, Carsten A. - 2019
This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People’s Republic of China. After defining SOEs and considering their scope of operation within the PRC economy, the focus of the paper is on the major reform waves that followed the deterioration of SOE...
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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers
Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schonberg, Uta - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...
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