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Digitization raises a variety of important academic and managerial questions around firm strategies and public policies for the content industries, with many of these questions influenced by the erosion of copyright caused by Internet file-sharing. At the same time, digitization has created many...
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The trickle of business method patents issued by the United States Patent Office became a flood after the State Street Bank decision in 1998. Many scholars, both legal and economic, have critiqued both the quality of these patents and the decision itself. This paper discusses the likely impact...
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destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …
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process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
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university field of study. We use data from a large number of high schools in Greece, where the performance in these high …
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of GDP by 2016. Informed by a detailed analysis of macroeconomic patterns in Greece, we estimate a rich dynamic general …
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Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do …
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We document that in semiformal economies, banks lend to tax-evading individuals based on the bank's assessment of the individual's true income. This observation leads to a novel approach to estimate tax evasion. We use microdata on household credit from a Greek bank, and replicate the bank...
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As of August 2015, Greece's loan repayments due to external creditors through 2057 summed to €319.5 billion, requiring … sufficient to increase Greece's primary balance by one percent of 2014 GDP – roughly a quarter of Greece's total debt obligations … overestimate the amount of actual revenue that Greece would raise due to the endogenous adjustment of capital and labor. Meeting …
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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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