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Consumer Surveillance and Financial Fraud
Bian, Bo; Pagel, Michaela; Tang, Huan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
concentrated in complaints related to lax data security and privacy, identified using keyword searches and machine learning on …
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The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why
Abowd, John M.; Adams, Tamara; Ashmead, Robert; Darais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using only 34 published tables, we reconstruct five variables (census block, sex, age, race, and ethnicity) in the confidential 2010 Census person records. Using the 38-bin age variable tabulated at the census block level, at most 20.1% of reconstructed records can differ from their confidential...
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Digital Advertising and Market Structure : Implications for Privacy Regulation
Deisenroth, Daniel; Manjeer, Utsav; Sohail, Zarak; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
. Privacy concerns have prompted regulations that restrict the use of personal data. To inform these policy debates, we develop … an equilibrium model of advertising and market structure to analyze the impact of privacy regulation on market outcomes … potential harms to both firms and consumers from privacy regulation …
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Spillover Effects from Voluntary Employer Minimum Wages
Derenoncourt, Ellora; Noelke, Clemens; Weil, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and outsourcing have hampered wage growth in the low-wage sector in the US. In recent years, a number of private employers have opted to institute or raise company-wide minimum wages for their employees, sometimes in response to public...
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What Happened to U.S. Business Dynamism?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2019
In the past several decades, the U.S. economy has witnessed a number of striking trends that indicate a rising market concentration and a slowdown in business dynamism. In this paper, we make an attempt to understand potential common forces behind these empirical regularities through the lens of...
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship in the United States
Azoulay, Pierre - 2020
Immigration can expand labor supply and create greater competition for native-born workers. But immigrants may also start new firms, expanding labor demand. This paper uses U.S. administrative data and other data resources to study the role of immigrants in entrepreneurship. We ask how often...
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Norwegian and US Policies Alleviate Business Vulnerability Due to the Covid-19 Shock Equally Well
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2020
We use Norwegian administrative data and applications for emergency government support to simulate magnitude and distribution of business revenue shock due to the Covid-19 pandemic. We rely on it to analyze the impact of business support policies available in Norway and the United States by...
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Are Consumers Affected by Durable Goods Makers' Financial Distress? The Case of Auto Manufacturers
Hortaçsu, Ali - 2010
The financial decisions of durable goods makers can impose spillovers on their consumers. Namely, durable goods provide a consumption stream that frequently depends on services provided by the manufacturer (e.g., warranties, parts, and maintenance). Manufacturer bankruptcy, or even the...
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Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Corporate and Financial Sectors
Bertrand, Marianne; Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2009
This paper assesses the relative importance of various explanations for the gender gap in career outcomes for highly-educated workers in the U.S. corporate and financial sectors. The careers of MBAs, who graduated between 1990 and 2006 from a top U.S. business school, are studied to understand...
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Towards a Theory of Firm Entry and Stabilization Policy
Bergin, Paul R. - 2005
This paper studies the role of stabilization policy in a model where firm entry responds to shocks and uncertainty. We evaluate stabilization policy in the context of a simple analytically solvable sticky price model, where firms have to prepay a fixed cost of entry. The presence of endogenous...
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