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data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely … and by higher dividends in cash-rich firms after the tax cut. The heterogeneous investment responses imply that the …
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The ifo Investment Survey asks firms in the German manufacturing sector about the importance of sales, technological … factors, finance, return expectations, and macroeconomic policy for their investment activity in a given year. We show that … these subjective investment determinants 1) capture economically what their labels suggest, and 2) have strong explanatory …
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The unemployment rate in Estonia rose sharply in 2010 to one of the highest levels in the EU, after the country entered …
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The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees' earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...
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on the unconditional, down-flow grant system in Estonia. In particular the procedure of determining the total sum of …
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This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be studied in long-lived organizations since workers may change their career expectations (and hence...
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We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 private firms advertising open positions. We find that average callback rates of disabled and...
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Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field experiment with the Italian information site lavoce.info to explore how to structure a campaign in a way...
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We document the effectiveness of robo calls for increasing voter participation despite most published research finding little or no effect of automated calls. We establish this finding in a large field experiment in a targeted, partisan get-out-the-vote campaign. Our experimental design includes...
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