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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many … expansion; but only in Denmark the driver of growth was internal demand. However, after three years a long slump set in as the …
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Badarinza, Cristian - 2014
The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century
Taylor, Alan M. - 2021
Although the empirical growth literature has yielded many findings on postwar convergence patterns, it has had little to say about the determinants of convergence in earlier epochs. This paper investigates convergence for group of seven countries during the period 1870-1914, the last great phase...
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Re-Evaluating Swedish Membership in Emu : Evidence from an Estimated Model
Söderström, Ulf - 2021
I revisit the potential costs and benefits for Sweden of joining the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European … inflation and GDP growth might have been slightly higher if Sweden had been a member of EMU since the launch in 1999, but also … in the monetary union would be advantageous for Sweden …
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Identifying the Effect of Election Closeness on Voter Turnout : Evidence from Swiss Referenda
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2017
We provide evidence of a causal effect of anticipated election closeness on voter turnout, exploiting the precise day-level timing of the release of Swiss national poll results for high-stakes federal referenda, and a novel dataset on daily mail-in voting for the canton of Geneva. Using an event...
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The Performance of the Pivotal-Voter Model in Small-Scale Elections : Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda
Coate, Stephen; Conlin, Michael; Moro, Andrea - 2021
How well does the pivotal-voter model explain voter participation in small-scale elections? This paper explores this question using data from Texas liquor referenda. It first structurally estimates the parameters of a pivotal-voter model using the Texas data. It then uses the estimates to...
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Voter Turnout : Theory and Evidence from Texas Liquor Referenda
Coate, Stephen; Conlin, Michael - 2021
structurally estimates it using the referendum data. It then compares the performance of the model with two alternative models of …
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The Vote is Cast : The Effect of Corporate Governance on Shareholder Value
Cuñat, Vicente - 2010
This paper estimates the effect of corporate governance provisions on shareholder value and long-term outcomes in S&P1500 firms. We apply a regression discontinuity design to shareholder votes on governance proposals in annual meetings. A close-call vote around the majority threshold is akin to...
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