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Ahir, Hites; Bloom, Nicholas; Furceri, Davide - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We construct the World Uncertainty Index (WUI) for an unbalanced panel of 143 individual countries on a quarterly basis …

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What Triggers Stock Market Jumps?

Baker, Scott; Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine next-day newspaper accounts of large daily jumps in 16 national stock markets to assess their proximate cause, clarity as to cause, and the geographic source of the market-moving news. Our sample of 6,200 market jumps yields several findings. First, policy news - mainly associated...

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Elections, Political Polarization, and Economic Uncertainty

Baker, Scott R. - 2020

We examine patterns of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) around national elections in 23 countries. Uncertainty shows a clear tendency to rise in the months leading up to elections. Average EPU values are 13% higher in the month of and the month prior to an election than in other months of the...

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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2009

World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 …

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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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Do Democracies Have Different Public Policies than Nondemocracies?

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2003

-90. Based on three tenets of voting theory -- that voting mutes policy preference intensity, political power is equally …

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Social Security and Democracy

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2002

Many political economic theories use and emphasize the process of voting in their explanation of the growth of Social Security, government spending, and other public policies. But is there an empirical connection between democracy and Social Security program size or design? Using some new...

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The World Distribution of Income (estimated from Individual Country Distributions)

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

We estimate the world distribution of income by integrating individual income distributions for 125 countries between … hosted 11% of the world's poor in 1960. It hosted 66% of them in 1998. We estimate nine indexes of income inequality implied … by our world distribution of income. All of them show substantial reductions in global income inequality during the 1980s …

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The Disturbing "Rise" of Global Income Inequality

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2002

person in the world. We then estimate the gaussian kernel density function for the worldwide distribution of income. We … compute world poverty rates by integrating the density function below the poverty lines. The $1/day poverty rate has fallen …

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The World Management Survey at 18 : lessons and the way forward

Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey …

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