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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...
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People's Understanding of Inflation
Binetti, Alberto; Nuzzi, Francesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies people's understanding of inflation--their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs--and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components--a conjoint...
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The People and the Experts
Nordhaus, William D.; Rivers, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education : An Overview
Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next cover the evidence on the effects of financial literacy on...
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The Unequal Cost of Job Loss across Countries
Bertheau, Antoine; Acabbi, Edoardo; Barceló, Cristina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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Wage Flexibility Under Sectoral Bargaining
Card, David E.; Cardoso, Ana Rute - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use administrative data from Portugal, linked to …
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International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2019
, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …
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The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2019
This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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