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country cases (Chile and Malaysia). In this paper, we attempt to address some of these shortcomings by: being very explicit … bring to bear the experiences of less well known episodes than those of Chile and Malaysia. Then, using a portfolio balance …
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Financial literacy and schooling attainment have been linked to household wealth accumulation. Yet prior findings may be biased due to noisy measures of financial literacy and schooling, as well as unobserved factors such as ability, intelligence, and motivation that could enhance financial...
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acumen, and we estimate this correlation to be large using firm-level data from Chile in 1995. A fall in trade costs leads to …
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randomized field experiments among 2,687 microentrepreneurs in Chile. The first experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a …
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longitudinal information from individuals attending primary and secondary schools in the city of Arica (in northern Chile). Between …
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used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …
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The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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Many economic decisions involve a binary choice - for example, when consumers decide to purchase a good or when firms decide to enter a new market. In such settings, agents' choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well as...
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2010 earthquake in Chile and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In both cases there was an immediate and persistent effect on … product availability. The number of goods available for sale fell 32% in Chile and 17% in Japan from the day of the disaster … Chile are consistent with pricing models where retailers have fear of "customer anger". In Japan, by contrast, the evidence …
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