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We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...
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This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...
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Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
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We use unique data from journal submissions to identify and unpack publication bias and p-hacking. We find that initial … publication bias in peer review. Desk-rejected manuscripts display greater heaping than those sent for review i.e. marginally …
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economists in 19 countries, we examine the effect of ideological bias on views among economists. Participants were asked to …, research area, and undergraduate major, with patterns consistent with the existence of ideological bias …
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We study the impact of media bias on tax compliance. Through a framed laboratory experiment, we assess how the exposure … significant reaction in respect to the neutral condition, suggesting that participants perceive the media negativity bias in the …
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In-group bias can be detrimental for communities and economic development. We study the causal effect of financial … constraints on in-group bias in prosocial behaviors – cooperation, norm enforcement, and sharing – among low-income rice farmers … in-group or out-group partners at village level. We find that in-group bias in cooperation and norm enforcement exist …
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, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias – people with extreme opinions are more … for reviewing has the potential to reduce this selection bias, because incentives can mitigate the motivational deficit of … voluntary reviews have a different distribution from incentivized reviews. The likely bias in the distribution of voluntary …
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share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent …
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observed and unobserved determinants of income, from across the developing world. We use nationally representative survey data … income elasticity of emigration demand is 0.23. The world's poor collectively treat migration not as an inferior good, but as …
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