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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
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developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
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diversification as an essential aspect of national risk management aimed at promoting efficiency, growth, and welfare. The paper first … presents economic and political diversification side by side in a cross-country framework and discusses how they interact and … effects of insufficient economic and insufficient political diversification. Dominated for decades by the fishing industry …
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A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far …
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. In the longer run, however, a trade-off between diversification and climate action emerges. We derive the optimal carbon …
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We study the investor behavior on a leading peer-to-business lending platform and find evidence of two new investment biases - a default shock bias and a deep market bias. First, we find investors to stop investing in new loans and to cease from diversifying their portfolio after experiencing a...
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Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
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Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We … examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email …
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economic costs to society of sexual-orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to … support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that the World Health Organization (WHO) does …
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Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to … investigate Armenians' willingness to hide their ethnicity to avoid expected discrimination. 43 percent of Armenian trustees …
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