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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...

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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries

Pflüger, Michael - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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Do Interventions Change the Network? A Panel Peer-Effect Model Accounting for Endogenous Network Changes

Comola, Margherita - 2014

A large literature has studied how peers affect behavior by exploiting the preexisting social network structure only. What if networks rewire in response to changes in the economic environment, such as a randomized intervention? We exploit a unique panel dataset that contains detailed...

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Performance Pay, Sorting, and Outsourcing

Henneberger, Fred - 2009

Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms …, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the …

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flávio - 2008

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Apps, Patricia - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...

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Measuring Economic Mobility in India Using Noisy Data : A Partial Identification Approach

Li, Hao - 2019

We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative …

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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : an Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence

Campos, Nauro - 2017

takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple …

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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?

Ramos, Xavier - 2017

Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent different choices matter empirically. We use EU-SILC data for most European countries for 2005...

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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Obradovich, Nick - 2020

by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse … can advance the study of human culture by providing quantitative, scalable, and high-resolution measurement of … calculated from this measurement instrument correspond to traditional survey-based and objective measures of cross …

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