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Fear of Sudden Stops : Lessons from Australia and Chile
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Kevin; Kearns, Jonathan - 2021
vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … Australia's historical experience. We argue that in order to understand sudden stops and the mechanisms to smooth them, it is … useful to identify and then distinguish between two inter-related dimensions of investors' confidence: country-trust and …
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Can Financial Incentives Help People Trying to Establish New Habits? Experimental Evidence with New Gym Members
Carrera, Mariana - 2017
We conducted a randomized controlled trial testing the effect of modest incentives to attend the gym among new members of a fitness facility, a population that is already engaged in trying to change a health behavior. Our experiment randomized 836 new members of a private gym into a control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951892
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Do Firms Use Coupons and In-Store Discounts to Strategically Market Experience Goods Over the Consumption Life-Cycle? The Case of Cigarettes
Sfekas, Andrew - 2014
Cigarettes are experience goods - most of their utility value only gets revealed when one consumes them. We hypothesize a three phase consumer life cycle for experience goods. Consumers initially do not know their utility from the good or their preferences for particular characteristics, and may...
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The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income : Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits
Stephens, Melvin - 2010
Japanese public pension benefits, which were distributed quarterly through February 1990 and every other month since then, induce substantial but predictable income fluctuations. The relative magnitude of the payments combined with the delay between payments yields a stronger test of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138326
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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Kaplan, Greg - 2014
accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054868
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Heterogeneous Yield Impacts from Adoption of Genetically Engineered Corn and the Importance of Controlling for Weather
Lusk, Jayson - 2017
Concern about declining growth in crop yields has renewed debates about the ability of biotechnology to promote food security. While numerous experimental and farm-level studies have found that adoption of genetically engineered crops has been associated with yield gains, aggregate and...
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When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal
Beeson, Patricia E. - 2010
To better understand the potential economic repercussions of a bioterrorist attack, this paper explores the effects of several catastrophic epidemics that struck American cities between 1690 and 1880. The epidemics considered here killed between 10 and 25 percent of the urban population studied....
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128268
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The Organization of Firms Across Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116932
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Financial Literacy, Retirement Planning, and Household Wealth
van Rooij, Maarten - 2011
There is ample empirical evidence documenting widespread financial illiteracy and limited pension knowledge. At the same time, the distribution of wealth is widely dispersed and many workers arrive on the verge of retirement with few or no personal assets. In this paper, we investigate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121050