Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 401
Cover Image
China and the Multilateral Trading System
Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2007
This paper reviews China's multilateral and preferential trade policies. It reviews the demanding terms of China's WTO accession, its current tariff and trade regime and its participation in the Doha Round negotiations and the institution's regular activities. The analysis concludes that China's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778124
Cover Image
Designing an International Economic Order : A Research Agenda
Bowen, T. Renee; Broz, J. Lawrence - 2022
The institutions that have sustained global economic cooperation for the past 75 years are under threat. Despite admonitions that global peace and prosperity are at risk, policymakers in important countries have ignored the rules of the multilateral order and moved down the path of unilateralism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293509
Cover Image
Would People Behave Differently If They Better Understood Social Security? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Liebman, Jeffrey B. - 2011
treatment group that was given information about key Social Security provisions and a control group that was not. The experiment … behavior, the information intervention increased survey measures of the perceived returns to working longer, especially among …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121596
Cover Image
Learning About CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility
Pan, Yihui - 2013
When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085131
Cover Image
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 … redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085497
Cover Image
Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui - 2014
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory has ambiguous effects on corporate transparency. On the one hand, by exposing firms to more product market competition, it could discourage discretionary disclosure. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067063
Cover Image
A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
Historically, urban growth required enough development to grow and transport significant agricultural surpluses or a government effective enough to build an empire. But there has been an explosion of poor mega-cities over the last thirty years. A simple urban model illustrates that in closed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071513
Cover Image
Unanimous Rules in the Laboratory
Bouton, Laurent - 2016
We study the information aggregation properties of unanimous voting rules in the laboratory. In line with theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999989
Cover Image
The Effects of Mandatory Transparency in Financial Market Design : Evidence from the Corporate Bond Market
Asquith, Paul - 2013
In July 2002, FINRA began mandatory dissemination of price and volume information for corporate bond trades. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076189
Cover Image
Forward Guidance and Household Expectations
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
then provide 22 different forms of information regarding past, current and/or future inflation and interest rates …. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments … constrained capacity to collect and process information.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840847