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This paper questions unconventional fiscal policy effects when the monetary policy rate is at the zero lower bound. We provide evidence for the US that the spread between the policy rate and the US-LIBOR, which is more relevant for private sector transactions, increases with government...
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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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, 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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We investigate whether excessively optimistic beliefs may play a role in the persistent demand for doctoral and post-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the provision of structured information on the...
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This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects …
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endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use of a discrete instrument for the …
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new method to correct for attrition bias. We rely on a 10-years longitudinal data set with a final attrition rate of 10 …
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controlled for there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely the co-movement of firm employment and firm wages. In a simple … aggregate or firm level) to firm's employment and wages cause downward bias in OLS regression estimates of RTT. We show that the … long established procedures for dealing with "traditional" RTT bias do not circumvent the additional problem we have …
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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