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Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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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 …
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' performance. Also consistent with the learning model is the fact that the learning curve appears to be convex in time, and …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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We study the information aggregation properties of unanimous voting rules in the laboratory. In line with theoretical …
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In July 2002, FINRA began mandatory dissemination of price and volume information for corporate bond trades. This paper …
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