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Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that …-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income distribution changes and account for reverse causality using instruments …
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This paper considers the consequences of a two-sector vertically-integrated model of firms producing output using firm-specific capital with a second sector producing firm-specific capital by adapting raw capital purchased in the market. Analysts rarely observe each sector separately....
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growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit … constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run growth potential than the easing of conventional entry barriers … would bring about. We explore this growth mechanism using a large-scale program to expand the supply of credit to small and …
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Regime changes toward autocracy typically reshape the judicial framework, effectively eroding the separation of powers and leading the nation toward an autocratic path. Recent instances of regime shift in Hungary, Poland, and Turkey offer templates of democratic erosion through manipulation and...
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, organizational reproduction has an explanatory power equal to half or more of the host city effect. Reproduction is strongest when a …
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of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal … workers is important and that has seen many ownership changes in recent years. We combine administrative data, a survey panel … of mills and an original survey of acquirers that allows us to construct acquirer-specific and target-specific control …
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matched control groups. Additionally, profit margins decrease for both acquirers and targets in the medium run. Furthermore …
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cost of Internet-based computing power and services. We find that cloud computing is associated with an increase in firm …
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tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due to novel foreign incentives, foreign capital of U.S … feedback from growth offsets only 2p.p. of the direct cost of 41% of pre-TCJA corporate revenue …
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Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction data in a developed country to examine the impact of...
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