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Improving the Measurement of Earnings Dynamics

Daly, Moira - 2016

The stochastic process for earnings is the key element of incomplete markets models in modern quantitative macroeconomics. We show that a simple modification of the canonical process used in the literature leads to a dramatic improvement in the measurement of earnings dynamics in administrative...

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The Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption Expenditure

D’Acunto, Francesco - 2016

Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...

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Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos - 2016

per job of $30,000 per year. A complementary IV estimation strategy yields similar estimates. We also explore the …

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele - 2016

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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Dynamic R&D Choice and the Impact of the Firm's Financial Strength

Peters, Bettina - 2016

This article investigates how a firm's financial strength affects its dynamic decision to invest in R&D. We estimate a dynamic model of R&D choice using data for German firms in high-tech manufacturing industries. The model incorporates a measure of the firm's financial strength, derived from...

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Central Bank Credibility : An Historical and Quantitative Exploration

Bordo, Michael D. - 2015

In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...

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How financially literate are women? An overview and new insights

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea - 2014

We document strikingly similar gender differences in financial literacy across countries. When asked to answer questions that measure knowledge of basic financial concepts, women are less likely than men to answer correctly and more likely to indicate that they do not know the answer. In...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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