bias. In order to evaluate the regional bias hypothesis, we augment individual Taylor rules for the Federal Reserve Bank … rules reveal that the preferences of some Federal Reserve Bank Presidents were not free of a regional bias. Augmented Taylor …

This paper studies the causal effect of gender bias on access to bank credit. We extract an exogenous measure of gender … bias from survey responses by descendants of US immigrants on questions about the role of women in society. We then use … data on 6,000 small business firms from 17 countries and find that in countries with higher gender bias, female-owned firms …

compared with the Fisher Ideal index to quantify elementary index bias. Across product categories, mean levels of annual … elementary index bias vary between -0.53 percentage points and 0.55 percentage points depending on the index, while the standard … average effect of elementary index bias on national inflation ranges from -0.45 to 0.45 percentage points depending on the …

IFC as the debt bias would fall. However, when other considerations eclipse competence and give the incumbent a strong … electoral advantage or disadvantage, setting up an IFC may be counterproductive as the debt bias would increase. If the … bias if voters care sufficiently about policymakers' competence; (ii) not all political environments are conducive to the …