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Transitory earnings opportunities and educational scarring of men
Jósef Sigurdsson - 2023
Men have fallen behind women in education in developed countries. Why? I study the impact of a transitory increase in the opportunity cost of schooling on men's and women's educational attainment. I exploit a reform in Iceland that lowered income taxes to zero for one year and compare teenagers...
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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?
Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012
based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best … output and capacity based allocation is proved to be the optimal second best policy. The EU scheme for 2013-2020 is discussed …, using cement as a case study. -- cap and trade ; output based allocation ; subsidization of capacity ; climate policy …
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Do firms mitigate or magnify capital misallocation? : evidence from planet-level data
Kehrig, Matthias; Vincent, Nicolas - 2017
Almost two thirds of the cross-plant dispersion in marginal revenue products of capital occurs across plants within the same firm rather than between firms. Even though firms allocate invest- ment very differently across their plants, they do not equalize marginal revenue products across their...
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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138753
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Contagious exporting and foreign ownership : evidence from firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian spatial bivariate probit model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2018
. These findings are established through the estimation of a spatial bivariate probit model. …
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Imperfect transmission of tacit knowledge and other barriers to entrepreneurship
Kanniainen, Vesa (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499576
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Cracks in the boards : the opportunity cost of governance homogeneity
Maghin, Helene - 2022 - This version: June 23, 2022, first version: July 24, 2019
Does the composition of governance affect firm outcomes? We exploit the timings and thresholds of a gender quota in boards of directors and supervisory boards to causally determine the impact of a change in leadership on performance. Using a novel design and data on boards, we find that firms...
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Favoritism and firms : micro evidence and macro implications
Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2022
We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources geographically within countries. Using enterprise surveys from low- and middle-income countries, we document that firms located close to leaders' birthplaces grow substantially...
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Regional and ethnic favoritism in the allocation of humanitarian aid
Bommer, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello - 2018
-income countries. While its allocation has been shown to be influenced by donors' foreign policy considerations, power relations within …
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Prioritarianism in education
Ooghe, Erwin - 2021
allocation problem. …
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