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The Empirical Economic Growth Literature

Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Heijungs, … - 2002

robustness using quasi-experiments. The analysis pertains to sign, size andsignificance of the effects, and we relax the quasi …

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Seasonal Adjustment with Measurement Error Present

Hausman, Jerry A.; Watson, Mark W. - 2021

Seasonal adjustment procedures attempt to estimate the sample realizations of an unobservable economic time series in the presence of both seasonal factors and irregular factors. In this paper we consider a factor which has not been considered explicitly in previous treatments of seasonal...

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The Political Coase Theorem : Experimental Evidence

Galiani, Sebastian - 2014

efficient policies regardless of the distribution of bargaining power among them. This paper uses a laboratory experiment to …

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The Political Economy of Public Debt : A Laboratory Study

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

This paper reports the results from a laboratory experiment designed to study political distortions in the accumulation …

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2018

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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Should Exact Index Numbers Have Standard Errors? Theory and Application to Asian Growth

Feenstra, Robert C.; Reinsdorf, Marshall B. - 2021

In this paper we derive the standard error of a price index when both prices and tastes or technology are treated as stochastic. Changing tastes or technology are a reason for the weights in the price index to be treated as stochastic, which can interact with the stochastic prices themselves. We...

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How Elastic are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013

We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for …

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Meet the Oligarchs : Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation

Di Tella, Rafael - 2016

We study the impact of two dimensions of trust, namely trust in business elites and trust in government, on policy preferences. Using a randomized online survey, we find that our two treatments are effective in changing trust in Major Companies and in Courts/Government. In contrast to previous...

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Natural Experiments in Macroeconomics

Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2015

A growing literature relies on natural experiments to establish causal effects in macroeconomics. In diverse … applications, natural experiments have been used to verify underlying assumptions of conventional models, quantify specific model …. We discuss and compare the use of natural experiments across these different applications and summarize what they have …

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Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution : A Laboratory Study

Agranov, Marina; Palfrey, Thomas R. - 2021

This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment that investigates the Meltzer-Richard model of equilibrium tax … altruism and inequality aversion. The experiment varies the amount of inequality and the collective choice procedure to …

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