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Economical Crime Control
Cook, Philip J. - 2010
This paper is the introductory chapter for the forthcoming NBER volume Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs. The Great Recession has led to cuts in criminal justice expenditures, and the trend towards ever-higher incarceration rates that has been underway since the 1970s in the U.S....
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Changes in Family Structure and Welfare Participation Since the 1960s : The Role of Legal Services
Goodman-Bacon, Andrew - 2019
This paper evaluates the effects of the War on Poverty's Legal Services Program (LSP) on family structure and welfare participation. LSPs provided subsidized legal assistance to poor communities, focusing on divorce and welfare access. We use a difference-in-differences research design based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863263
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2014
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
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A Tear in the Iron Curtain : The Impact of Western Television on Consumption Behavior
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
This paper examines the impact of exposure to foreign media on the economic behavior of agents in a totalitarian regime. We study private consumption choices focusing on former East Germany, where differential access to Western television was determined by geographic features. Using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048602
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International Implications of German Unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021
This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a massive resource demand which parallels the US resource demand following Reagan's tax reforms in the eighties. The resource demand revised the German interest rates relative to...
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From Socialist Showcase to Mezzogiorno? Lessons on the Role of Technical Change from East Germany'S Post-World War Ii Growth Performance
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in explaining the relative East Germany-West Germany performance during the post-World War II era. We argue that previous work was excessively focused on physical capital investments...
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2010
product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …
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Innovation by Entrants and Incumbents
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
We extend the basic Schumpeterian endogenous growth model by allowing incumbents to undertake innovations to improve their products, while entrants engage in more "radical" innovations to replace incumbents. Our model provides a tractable framework for the analysis of growth driven by both entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137600
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Innovation and Welfare : Results from Joint Estimation of Production and Demand Functions
Jaumandreu, Jordi - 2010
that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …
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On the Timing and Efficiency of Creative Destruction
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010
process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139984