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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that produces highly varied lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures. The O antigen (O-Ag) in the LPS is synthesized through the Wzx/Wzy-dependent pathway where lipid-linked O-Ag repeats are polymerized by ...
Véronique L. Taylor +5 more
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Discriminatory Lending: Evidence from Bankers in the Lab
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment with 334 Turkish loan officers to document gender discrimination in small business lending and unpack mechanisms.
M. Brock, Ralph de Haas
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 In a field experiment that constructs a randomized credit limit shock, participants borrow to spend 11 cents on the dollar in the first quarter and 28 cents by the third year.
Deniz Aydin
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The Nexus of Monetary Policy and Shadow Banking in China
The American Economic Review, 2018 We study how monetary policy in China influences banks’ shadow banking activities. We develop and estimate the endogenously switching monetary policy rule that is based on institutional facts and at the same time tractable in the spirit of Taylor (1993).
Kaiji Chen, Jue Ren, Tao Zha
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American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019 Combining rich firm and administrative data, this paper examines the incidence and effectiveness of a prominent place-based policy in China: special economic zones.
Yi Lu, Jin Wang, Lianming Zhu
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American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 Despite evidence from multiple randomized evaluations of microcredit, questions about external validity have impeded consensus on the results. I jointly estimate the average effect and the heterogeneity in effects across seven studies using Bayesian ...
R. Meager
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Labeled loans and human capital investments
Journal of Development Economics, 2023 Imperfect capital markets and commitment problems impede lumpy human capital investments. Labeled loans have been postulated as a potential solution to both constraints, but little is known about the role of the label in influencing investment choices in
B. Augsburg +4 more
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 We empirically characterize how China is internationalizing its bond market by staggering the entry of different types of foreign investors into its domestic market and propose a dynamic reputation model to explain this strategy.
C. Clayton +3 more
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Electronic Payment Technology and Tax Compliance: Evidence from Uruguay’s Financial Inclusion Reform
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyDoes the digitization of transactions in an economy increase tax compliance? We study the effect of financial incentives on the adoption of electronic payment technology and on tax compliance by firms.
A. Brockmeyer, Magaly Sáenz Somarriba
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Asset-based microfinance for microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan
Social Science Research Network, 2021 We run a field experiment offering graduated microcredit clients the opportunity to finance a business asset worth four times their usual borrowing limit. We implement this using a hire-purchase contract; our control group is offered a zero interest loan
F. Bari +3 more
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