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State-Level Economic Policy Uncertainty
Baker, Scott R.; Davis, Steven J.; Levy, Jeffrey A. - 2022
We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282162
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Bringing Connections Onboard: The Value of Political Influence
Green, Colin P.; HomRoy, Swarnodeep - 2020
In 2002, an amendment to UK parliamentary regulations removed restrictions on the participation of members of parliament (MPs) in parliamentary proceedings related to their corporate interests. Using this amendment as a quasi-natural experiment, we demonstrate gains in firm value and...
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Mixed Up? : That's Good for Motivation
Koch, Alexander K.; Peyrache, Eloïc - 2004
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex ante uncertainty, if the unobservable actions that an agent takes influence his future productivity. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276186
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359868
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Model of NGO regulation with an application to Uganda
Burger, Ronelle; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Owens, Trudy - 2011
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of … some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such regulation induces some NGOs to … parametric configurations, we find that regulation increases total discounted project expenditure over a regime of no regulation …
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Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries
Malit, Froilan T.; Naufal, George S - 2016
This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Drawing from ethnographic and field-based observations in large GCC migrant destinations –...
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur; Taylor, Karl - 2014
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398290
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Quader, Manzur; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790512
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Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
Chew, Soo Hong; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen; Zhong, Songfa - 2017
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive on son preference are two-fold. First, prior to the birth of their children, more risk-averse...
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