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Public programs to provide early-stage financing to firms, particularly high-technology companies, have become commonplace in the United States and abroad. The long-run effectiveness of these programs, however, has attracted little empirical scrutiny. This paper examines the impact of the...
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The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...
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Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...
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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …
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A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …
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platforms for pet-sitting services. We exploit variation in pre-merger market shares and a difference-in-differences approach to …
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find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …
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) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …
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Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …
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This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two … decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be … Salinger (2005, 2008), we develop a simple model of an advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff …
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