Browsing Applied Economics by Title
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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture
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Minority and majority private equity investments: firm performance and governance
(Springer Link, 2016-11-02)This paper adds to the literature on the determinants of the effects of private equity (PE) investments. Using an original dataset of 191 target firms in Italy, we study the effects on performance and governance of the ... -
Mortgages and Monetary Policy
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Motivate and Select: Relational Contracts with Persistent Types
(Wiley: 24 months, 2017-03-07)We develop a model of relational contracts with moral hazard and asymmetric persistent information about an employee's type. We find that the form of the optimal contract depends on the job characteristics and the distribution ... -
Ordering ambiguous acts
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Partial identification of functionals of the joint distribution of “potential outcomes”
(Elsevier/Science Direct, 2016-11-10)In this paper, we present a systematic study of partial identification of two general classes of functionals of the joint distribution of two “potential outcomes” when a bivariate sample from the joint distribution is not ... -
Pathways from school to work in the developing world
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Rationalizability of menu preferences
(Springer Verlag, 2018-05-18)The class of preferences over opportunity sets ("menus") rationalizable by underlying preferences over the alternatives is characterized for the general case in which the dataset is unrestricted. In particular, both the ... -
The Reform of the International Financial Architecture
(Kluwer Law International, 2001) -
The role of central banks in monetary affairs: A comparative perspective
(2014-01-01)© Cambridge University Press 2014. This chapter presents a comparative approach to the study of central banks, with emphasis on the evolving role of the US Federal Reserve System and the ECB. A central bank is the key ... -
The rule of law in monetary affairs: World trade forum
(2014-01-01)© Cambridge University Press 2014. The global financial crisis and subsequent sovereign debt crisis in Europe demonstrated that the relationship between law and economics in the design of the monetary system must be ...