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This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the degree of impurity of these goods. When the degree of...
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Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support scheme that has been maintained by the Danish government since 1995. To cope with identification...
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Enacted March 27, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy … response to the Pandemic Recession in the United States. PPP offers forgivable loans - essentially grants - to businesses with … 500 or fewer employees that meet certain requirements. In this paper, we present evidence that PPP has substantially …
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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint return-migration and saving decisions of temporary migrants and then test its implications by using data...
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We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...
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affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … study is that trade and capital movements are very unlikely to lead to an equalisation of factor prices. Thus, strong …
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paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending … consequences of the slave trade on the "receiving" countries in the Americas. Here I distinguish between the case of Latin America …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We … product markets have become increasingly integrated. Moreover, it can explain why the volume of trade between developed and …
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international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have …
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