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A century of partisanship in Finnish political speech

Simola, Salla; Nieminen, Jeremias; Tukiainen, Janne - 2023

We use novel data to describe the evolution of party differences in parliamentary speech in Finland during 1907-2018. We find a peak in left-right polarization in the 1970s, driven by the extreme left party, and co-occuring with a high prevalance of Soviet Union related phrases, perhaps...

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Combating online hate speech : the impact of legislation on Twitter

Andres, Raphaela; Slivko, Olga - 2021

We analyze the impact of the Network Enforcement Act, the first regulation which aims at restraining hate speech on large social media platforms. Using a difference-in- differences framework, we measure the causal impact of the German law on the prevalence of hateful content on German Twitter....

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Public R&D investment in economic crises

Pellens, Maikel; Peters, Bettina; Hud, Martin; Rammer, … - 2021 - This version: November 2021

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Optimal policy: which, where, and why

Furtado, Bernardo Alves; Andreão, Gustav Onofre - 2023

The paper exploits a simulation environment and its output indicators to compare the performance of "ex-ante" policy … instruments across housing and social welfare domains. We create a progressive score to contrast six single and mixed policy … instruments against a no-policy baseline. The multiple simulation results include indicators for distinct instruments, cities, and …

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Public R&D investment in economic crises

Pellens, Maikel; Peters, Bettina; Hud, Martin; Rammer, … - 2020 - This version: November 2020

We study the cyclicality of public R&D in 28 OECD countries (1995-2017). While procyclical on average, public R&D reacts asymmetrically over different phases of the business cycle and becomes acyclical during recessions. It is also heterogeneous across countries: Innovation leaders and followers...

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