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One size does not fit all : TFP in the aftermath of financial crises in three European countries

Abele, Christian; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Fontagné, … - 2021

We analyse the impact of both the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the European sovereign and banking crisis of 2011-13 on firm-level productivity in France, Italy and Spain. We show that relying on a single break date in 2008 misses both the Eurozone crisis and countries' institutional...

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The UK's great demand and supply recession

Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020

We revisit UK's poor productivity performance since the Great Recession by means of both a suitable theoretical framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes over time, and distinguish between quantity total factor...

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The macroeconomic loss function : a critical note

Mayer, Thomas - 2002

The standard loss function counts both positive and negative deviations from the output and inflation targets as losses. But if the sample period is long enough, then output growth in excess of the target, and often also inflation rates that are below target, should be counted as gains instead...

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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … administrative-survey data allows us to incorporate usually unobserved personality measures in the evaluation and investigate their …

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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German

Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...

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Who is the "journal grand master"? : a new ranking based on the Elo rating system

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2016

In this paper we transfer the Elo rating system, which is widely accepted in chess, sports and other disciplines, to rank scientific journals. The advantage of the Elo system is the explicit consideration of the factor time or the history of a journal's performance. Most other rankings that are...

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The effects of making performance information public : evidence from Los Angeles teachers and a regression discontinuity design

Bergman, Peter; Hill, Matthew J. - 2015

In theory, the publication of performance ratings may improve performance through reputation concerns and peer effects or impede performance by demoralizing employees. This paper uses school-district data and a regression discontinuity design to answer how consumers and employees respond to...

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When do teachers respond to student feedback? : evidence from a field experiment

Buurman, Margaretha; Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J.; … - 2020

receiving student feedback on student evaluation scores a year later. However, teachers whose self-assessment before the …

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

School systems regularly use student assessments for accountability purposes. But, as highlighted by our conceptual model, different configurations of assessment usage generate performance-conducive incentives of different strengths for different stakeholders in different school environments. We...

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Gender bias in teaching evaluations

Mengel, Friederike; Sauermann, Jan; Zölitz, Ulf - 2018

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...

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