Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Conventional wisdom suggests that competition in the modern digital environment pushes media outlets toward the early release of less accurate information. We show that this is not necessarily the case. Two opposing forces determine the resolution of the speed‐accuracy tradeoff: preemption and reputation.
Ayush Pant, Federico Trombetta
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Wage gains from foreign ownership: evidence from linked employer-employee data. [PDF]
J Labour Mark Res, 2021 Köllő J, Boza I, Balázsi L.
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Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Using a novel, hand‐collected dataset of U.S. life insurance companies during the influenza pandemic of 1918–9, we show that high‐exposure life insurers charged higher prices on new policies vis‐à‐vis less exposed firms. Although the disease surprisingly increased the mortality rates among younger adults, it also increased awareness of the ...
Gustavo S. Cortes, Gertjan Verdickt
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A multidisciplinary analysis of over 53,000 fascioliasis patients along the 1995-2019 countrywide spread in Vietnam defines a new epidemiological baseline for One Health approaches. [PDF]
One HealthDe NV +13 more
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Fiscal Stimulus and Firms' Sales and Capital Expenditure During the Global Financial Crisis. [PDF]
Comp Econ Stud, 2021 Correa-Caro C +3 more
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Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of worker living standards in Angola and Mozambique, contextualized within a broader comparison of colonial African empires.
Leo Dolan
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Influence of Streamer's Social Capital on Purchase Intention in Live Streaming E-Commerce. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Xu P, Cui BJ, Lyu B.
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A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded
Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova
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Brexit, Covid-19, and Possible Frameworks for Future UK/EU Financial Governance Cooperation
, 2021 Howell E.
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