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Are Mass Media and ICTs Associated with Inequality and Poverty?
(Emerald, 2017-03) -
Are uncertainty shocks aggregate demand shocks?
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Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Employment and Pay Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil
We measure the effects of firm policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. Non-Whites are less likely to be hired by high-wage firms, explaining about 20 percent of the racial wage gap for both genders. Firm-specific pay ... -
The asymptotics of price and strategy in the buyer’s bid double auction
(2023-01-01)In a model with correlated and interdependent values/costs, we identify for the buyer’s bid double auction the asymptotic distributions of the price and of two order statistics in the first order conditions for optimal ... -
Athree-dimensionalasymmetric powerHEAVYmodel
(2020-10-09) -
Bank failures and bank insolvency law in economies in transition
(Kluwer Law Intl, 1999) -
The banking system and savings allocation in Italy
(2015-05-15) -
Banking Union and Single Market: Conflict or Companionship?
(2013-08-31) -
Behavioral implications of shortlisting procedures
(Springer Berlin-Heidelberg, 2013-10)We consider two-stage “shortlisting procedures” in which the menu of alternatives is first pruned by some process or criterion and then a binary relation is maximized. Given a particular first-stage process, our main result ... -
Beyond Shareholder Wealth Maximisation Towards a More Suitable Corporate Objective for Chinese Companies
(Routledge, 2017-09-08)The corporate objective, namely, in whose interests a company should be run, is the most important theoretical and practical issue confronting us today, as this core objective animates or should animate every decision a ... -
Bias in Returns to Tenure When Firm Wages and Employment Comove: A Quantitative Assessment and Solution
(University of Chicago Press, 2017-11-08)It is well known that unless worker-firm match quality is controlled for, reduced-form estimates of returns to firm tenure will be biased. In this paper, we show that there is a further pervasive source of bias, namely, ... -
Birth Timing and Neonatal Health.
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Blended Identification in Structural VARs
The proposed blended approach combines identification via heteroskedasticity with sign/narrative restrictions, and instrumental variables. Since heteroskedasticity can point identify shocks, its use results in a sharp ...