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Donald Trump's 2016 election and the subsequent nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically downshifted expectations on US climate change...
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The American Time Use Survey 2003-15, the French Enquete Emploi du Temps, 2009-10, and the German Zeitverwendungserhebung, 2012-13, have sufficient observations to allow examining the theory of...
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This paper proposes strategies for defining, identifying, and estimating features of treatment-effect distributions in contexts where multiple outcomes are of interest. After describing existing...
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We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of ischemic heart disease (IHD) events, independent of regular cyclical effects...
View ArticleIn the Shadows of the Government: Relationship Building During Political...
We document that following a turnover of the Party Secretary or mayor of a city in China, firms (especially private firms) headquartered in that city significantly increase their "perk spending." Both...
View ArticleThe Propagation of Monetary Policy Shocks in a Heterogeneous Production...
We study the transmission of monetary policy shocks in a model in which realistic heterogeneity in price rigidity interacts with heterogeneity in sectoral size and input-output linkages, and derive...
View ArticleThe Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and...
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our Differences-in-Differences estimations leverage the fact that regions close to the border were...
View ArticleThe Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship: Evidence...
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur....
View ArticleMoney Markets, Collateral and Monetary Policy -- by Fiorella De Fiore, Marie...
Interbank money markets have been subject to substantial impairments in the recent decade, such as a decline in unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper...
View ArticleThe Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship: Evidence...
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur....
View ArticleMoney Markets, Collateral and Monetary Policy -- by Fiorella De Fiore, Marie...
Interbank money markets have been subject to substantial impairments in the recent decade, such as a decline in unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper...
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This paper examines potential tradeoffs between research methods in answering important questions versus providing more cleanly identified estimates on problems that are potentially of lesser interest....
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Interbank money markets have been subject to substantial impairments in the recent decade, such as a decline in unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper...
View ArticleThe Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship: Evidence...
We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur....
View ArticleMoney Markets, Collateral and Monetary Policy -- by Fiorella De Fiore, Marie...
Interbank money markets have been subject to substantial impairments in the recent decade, such as a decline in unsecured lending and substantial increases in haircuts on posted collateral. This paper...
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