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The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
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In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...
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With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions … Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust system for house prices, housing supply and subprime lending. The model … accounts for regional differences in supply elasticities that are determined by local variations in topographical and …
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imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the … future sales to decline, would supply more of their resource between the announcement of the Acid Rain Program and its … implementation; moreover, the incentive to increase supply would be stronger for owners of high-sulfur coal. This would, all else …
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This paper examines the advantages and drawbacks of alternative methods of estimating oil supply and oil demand … conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
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This paper theoretically analyzes and empirically investigates the importance of local interaction between individuals of different linguistic groups for the provision of public goods at the national level. Depending on whether local interaction mitigates or reinforces antagonism towards other...
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We study the effects of federal purchases on firm investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. Using panel fixed-effect models, propensity score matching, and inverse probability weighting...
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