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Criminal law and economics rests on the expectation that deterrence incentives can be employed to reduce crime. Prison …
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In this paper, we use survey data to analyze the rationality of professional macroeconomic forecasts. We analyze both individual forecasts and average forecasts. We provide evidence on the properties of forecasts for all the G7-counties and four different macroeconomic variables. Furthermore, we...
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We study ethnic discrimination in Europe's largest carpooling marketplace. Using a unique dataset with more than 17,000 rides, we estimate the effects of drivers' perceived name origins on the demand for rides. Carpooling is a novel application for studying ethnic discrimination where consumer...
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bias that appears to matter for empirical studies of trade. -- Deardorff diagram ; technology shock ; factor endowments … ; factor bias ; sector bias …
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model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for …
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' method for eliciting such preferences?ʺ. It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the …) in order to avoid the bias in better-known and more widely-used techniques. …
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relationship between a change in trend growth rates and forecast bias, as suggested in the literature, breaks down when only …
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' equities in investors' portfolios nearly doubles, reducing (but not eliminating) the observed home bias. …
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and implement suitable bias corrections. Extensive simulation experiments confirm the desirable statistical properties of … the bias-corrected estimators. Empirically, taking two sources of persistence - true state dependence and unobserved … heterogeneity - into account using a dynamic specification, along with appropriate fixed effects and bias corrections, changes the …
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