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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which … behavior after the reform, and the volume spike in the fixing window disappeared. However, the anomalies on price dynamics … to examine the efficiency of banks' behavior after the reform. The volume pattern during the fixing time window suggests …
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This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but...
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belief has led several countries to reform their labor markets and liberalize the use of fixed-term contracts. Despite how …. To fill this gap, we build a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and firing costs in the tradition of …
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design compares firm cohorts incorporated before the reform and after; in a robustness check we additionally draw on the …
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During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefitted and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...
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In this paper, we assess whether welfare reform affects earnings only through mean impacts that are constant within but … job of capturing the treatment effect heterogeneity for Connecticut's Jobs First welfare reform experiment using quantile …
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The 2005 split-share reform in China mandated the conversion of nontradable stocks into tradable status. This paper …, investment, value, and productivity as a result of the reform. We also identify changes in firms' likelihood to issue shares and …
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evaluate using a unique reform. In 2005, Hungary switched from a single-step UI system to a two-step system, with unchanged …
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We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … business. We study whether this reform affects the composition of people who are drawn into entrepreneurship. New firms started … in response to the reform are, on average, smaller, but have similar growth expectations and education levels compared to …
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