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A Multi-Country Comparison of Term Structure Forecasts at Long Horizons
Jorion, Philippe - 1991
This paper extends previous work on the information in the term structure at longer maturities to other countries besides the United states, using a newly constructed data set for 1 to 5 year interest rates from Britain, West Germany and Switzerland. Even with wide differences in inflation...
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Incentive Pay and Bank Risk-Taking : Evidence from Austrian, German, and Swiss Banks
Efing, Matthias - 2014
We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail banking …
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Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations
Fuster, Andreas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In this chapter, we discuss field experiments in surveys that are conducted with the purpose of learning about expectation formation and the link between expectations and behavior. We begin by reviewing the rationale for conducting experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938719
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Missing Top Income Recipients
Ravallion, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Low response rates among rich households are thought to be a serious problem in many applications using household surveys. The paper discusses the various ways the problem can be dealt with, and makes some recommendations for practice, including in developing countries. Under certain conditions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585374
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What Leads to Measurement Errors? Evidence from Reports of Program Participation in Three Surveys
Celhay, Pablo A.; Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Measurement errors are often a large source of bias in survey data. Lack of knowledge of the determinants of such errors makes it difficult for data producers to reduce the extent of errors and for data users to assess the validity of analyses using the data. We study the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814427
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Eliciting People's First-Order Concerns : Text Analysis of Open-Ended Survey Questions
Ferrario, Beatrice; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper illustrates the design and use of open-ended survey questions as a way of eliciting people's first-order concerns on policies. Multiple choice questions are the backbone of most surveys, but they may prime respondents to select answer options that they would not naturally have thought...
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Selection in Surveys
Dutz, Deniz; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Lacouture, Santiago; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate how nonresponse affects conclusions drawn from survey data and consider how researchers can reliably test and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic that used randomly assigned financial incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794577
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Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
Park, David Sungho; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...
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Agent Orange : Trump, Soft Power, and Exports
Rose, Andrew K. - 2019
A country's exports rise when its leadership is approved by other countries. I show this using a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 countries whether they approve of the job performance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479395
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Five Facts about Beliefs and Portfolios
Giglio, Stefano - 2019
We administer a newly-designed survey to a large panel of wealthy retail investors. The survey elicits beliefs that are important for macroeconomics and finance, and matches respondents with administrative data on their portfolio composition, their log-in behavior, and their trading activity. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479695