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Deniers and Compliers: Unpacking the Heterogeneous Effectiveness of U.S. Stay‐at‐Home Mandates During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While existing work shows COVID‐19 stay‐at‐home (SAH) policies decreased mobility on average, we lack evidence regarding heterogeneity in policy effectiveness across US counties. To uncover potential heterogeneity, we implement a novel two‐stage approach.
James Sears   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Striking a Bargain: Narrative Identification of Wage Bargaining Shocks

open access: yesJournal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wage markup shocks, an important driver of business cycles, are hard to pin down. We quantify the importance of exogenous variation in wage bargaining power, one source of those shocks, from German minimum wage introduction episodes and strikes. This disciplines the impulse responses of unemployment and output, and sharpens inference for other
Žymantas Budrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An optimal Voting System when Voting is costly [PDF]

open access: yes
We consider the design of an optimal voting system when voting is costly. For a private values model with two alternatives we show the optimality of a voting system that combines three elements: (i) there is an arbitrarily chosen default decision and non-
Bognar, Katalin   +2 more
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International Evidence on the Relationship Between Financial Literacy and Corporate Cash Holdings

open access: yesJournal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study is the first investigation of the relationship between corporate cash holdings and financial literacy (FL). We find that a one‐standard‐deviation increase in FL is associated with an 8%–27% reduction in corporate cash holdings, depending on the measure of FL used.
Kenneth Yung   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do Concentrated Owners Pay Less? French Evidence on Tax Avoidance and Female Directors

open access: yesStrategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether concentrated voting control increases corporate tax avoidance in French listed firms and whether board gender diversity and audit committee independence constrain that relationship. Using 3388 firm‐year observations from 242 CAC All Shares firms from 2009 to 2022, the analysis combines hand‐collected voting rights ...
Habiba Laadhari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling image optimisation and artificial intelligence technologies for better Internet of Things framework to predict COVID

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Sensor technology advancements have provided a viable solution to fight COVID and to develop healthcare systems based on Internet of Things (IoTs). In this study, image processing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are used to improve the IoT framework.
Noor M Allayla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

And the loser is... Plurality Voting [PDF]

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This paper reports on a vote for choosing the best voting rules that was organized among the participants of the Voting Procedures workshop in July, 2010. Among 18 voting rules, Approval Voting won the contest, and Plurality Voting received no support at
Jean-François Laslier
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