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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...

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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections

Liu, Laura - 2020

We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...

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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Morck, Randall K. - 2005

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

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Globalization and Its (Dis-)Content : Trade Shocks and Voting Behavior

Dippel, Christian - 2015

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009 …

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CEO Turnover and Foreign Market Participation

Blonigen, Bruce - 2003

Anecdotal evidence suggests that new CEOs with foreign backgrounds direct their firms to become more international in their operations. We examine this hypothesis formally using data on U.S. S&P-500 manufacturing firms from 1992 through 1997 and biographical information on CEOs' birth and...

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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process

Ellison, Glenn - 2000

top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …

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Marshall's Economies

Henderson, Vernon - 1999

This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...

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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?

Meng, Qinglai - 1999

In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...

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A Rent-Protection Theory of Corporate Ownership and Control

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 1999

This paper develops a rent-protection theory of corporate ownership structure - and in particular, of the choice between concentrated and dispersed ownership of corporate shares and votes. The paper analyzes the decision of a company's initial owner whether to maintain a lock on control when the...

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Women in Academic Economics : Have We Made Progress?

Ginther, Donna K.; Kahn, Shulamit Beth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …

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