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Climate Capitalists
Gormsen, Niels; Huber, Kilian; Oh, Sangmin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Firms' perceived cost of green capital has decreased since the rise of sustainable investing. Green and brown firms perceived their cost of capital to be the same before 2016, but after the post-2016 surge in sustainable investing, green firms perceived their cost of capital to be on average 1...
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008
integration …
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US
Lewis, Karen K. - 2006
capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …
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Bond Markets as Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …
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The Effect of Hospital/Physician Integration on Hospital Choice
Baker, Laurence C. - 2015
In this paper, we estimate how hospital ownership of physicians' practices affects their patients' hospital choices. We match data on the hospital admissions of Medicare beneficiaries, including the identity of their admitting physician, with data on the identity of the owner of the admitting...
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AI, Skill, and Productivity : The Case of Taxi Drivers
Kanazawa, Kyogo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Shigeoka, Hitoshi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on productivity in the context of taxi drivers. The AI we study assists drivers with finding customers by suggesting routes along which the demand is predicted to be high. We find that AI improves drivers' productivity by shortening the...
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Infrastructure Inequality : Who Pays the Cost of Road Roughness?
Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kreindler, Gabriel E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Which Americans experience the worst infrastructure? What are the costs of living with that infrastructure? We measure road roughness throughout America using vertical acceleration data from Uber rides across millions of American roads. Our measure correlates strongly and positively with other...
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International Trade and the Environment : Three Remaining Empirical Challenges
Cherniwchan, Jevan M.; Taylor, Michael Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...
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