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Economic Impact of Climate Change
Social Science Research Network, 2022 We estimate the economic impact of climate change by exploiting variation in local temperature across suppliers of the same client. We find that suppliers experiencing a 1°C increase in average daily temperature decrease their sales by 2%.
Cláudia Custódio +3 more
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Tariff Pass-Through at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from US Trade Policy
American Economic Review: Insights, 2019 We use microdata collected at the border and the store to characterize the price impact of recent US trade policy on importers, exporters, and consumers. At the border, import tariff pass-through is much higher than exchange rate pass-through.
Alberto Cavallo +5 more
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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from US Patents
American Economic Review: Insights, 2020 Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of US corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China’s economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle US innovation.
David H. Autor +4 more
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Estimating the Optimal Inflation Target from Trends in Relative Prices
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We derive closed-form expressions for the optimal inflation target under Calvo and menu-cost frictions in a model featuring a product life cycle and multiple sources of heterogeneity across goods.
Klaus Adam, H. Weber
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Are Consumers Myopic? Evidence from New and Used Car Purchases
, 2013 We investigate whether car buyers are myopic about future fuel costs. We estimate the effect of gasoline prices on short-run equilibrium prices of cars of different fuel economies.
Meghan R. Busse +2 more
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Raising the Bar: Certification Thresholds and Market Outcomes
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2023 Certification of sellers by trusted third parties helps alleviate information asymmetries in markets, yet little is known about the impact of a certification’s threshold on market outcomes.
Xiang Hui +3 more
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Privatization and productivity in China
The Rand Journal of Economics, 2021 We study how changes in ownership a¤ect the productivity of rms. Privatization of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) was a major economic reform during Chinas rapid growth, but its true impact remains controversial.
Yuyu Chen +3 more
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Industry Specialization and Small Business Lending
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2023 This paper documents the rise and impact of industry-specialized small business lending. Using loan-level data with detailed industry codes from the Small Business Administration (SBA), we document a recent rise in lenders that originate loans nationally
Wenhua Di, Nathaniel Pattison
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Expecting Floods: Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications
Social Science Research Network, 2022 Using county-level and zip-code-level data from the United States during the period 1998–2018, we document: (i) Increased flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; (ii) Flood events reduce output in the
Ruixue Jia, Xiao Ma, V. Xie
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100 Years of Rising Corporate Concentration
The American Economic ReviewWe collect data on the size distribution of US businesses for 100 years, and use these data to estimate the concentration of production (e.g., asset share or sales share of top businesses). The data show that concentration has increased persistently over
S. Kwon, Yueran Ma, Kaspar Zimmermann
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