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This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
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, even though these students have a new set of peers and teachers who are unaware of the students’ prior ranking in primary …
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Can a firm increase its workers' eff ort by introducing competition through performance-based ranking? On one hand such … ranking can increase eff ort because of individuals' desire for status from high ranks, but on the other, it can demotivate … status associated with ranking through a randomized experiment at a Bangladeshi sweater factory. Treated workers receive …
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We study the rank of the instantaneous or spot covariance matrix Σ(t) of a multidimensional continuous semi-martingale X(t). Given highfrequency observations X(i=n), i = 0; : : : ;n, we test the null hypothesis rank (Σ(t)) ≤ r for all t against local alternatives where the average (r + 1)st...
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Die Konsolidierung der Staatsfinanzen nach der gegenwärtigen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise wird eines der zentralen … BIP. Aber auch bei einer erfolgreichen Konsolidierung würde die Staatsverschuldung in 2016 noch ca. 75% des BIP betragen … verbunden sein wird, erscheint die Konsolidierung der Staatsfinanzen geboten. Der Konsolidierungsbedarf sollte nach der Krise …
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Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
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