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Abstract Providing replication code is an inexpensive way to facilitate reproducibility. However, little is known about the extent of replication code provision. Therefore, we examine the availability of replication code for over 2500 peer‐reviewed articles based on the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the most widely used datasets in ...
Lukas Fink, Jan Marcus
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Abstract A transparent and reliable business environment, free from corruption, is essential for agricultural development. However, the impact of corruption control on productive activities remains ambiguous. While corruption can facilitate transactions in an overly regulated environment, its control is also crucial for creating transparency and ...
Rustam Rakhmetov, Thomas Herzfeld
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The peopling of macroeconomics: Microeconomics of aggregate consumer expenditures [PDF]
Since the 1950s economists have been building a theory of aggregate consumer spending, seeking to understand how individual households choose to spend and how their choices change when interest rates, the unemployment rate, and other economic indicators ...
Satyajit Chatterjee
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Structural change and inequality in a general equilibrium model of a transition economy
Abstract The paper studies the role of economic transition in the evolution of wealth inequality. We build a novel overlapping generations model that features heterogeneous workers and exogenous changes: (i) a structural change shifting employment from manufacturing to services and increasing educational attainment, (ii) TFP growth along the path of ...
Joanna Tyrowicz+2 more
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A Very Reasonable Objective Still Beyond Our Reach: Economics as an Empirically Disciplined Social Science [PDF]
The paper discusses some fundamental features of the 'Simonian' research program in microeconomics and compare them with two streams of thought which find their roots into Simon's pathbreaking work since the '50s and '60s, namely Transaction Cost ...
Giovanni Dosi
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Mining and Structural Change: How Does Mining Affect Participation in the Global Value Chain?
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between mining activity and participation and positioning in the global value chain in 74 developing countries from 1995–2018. Mining activity can impact countries' participation and especially their positioning in this chain through the changes it induces in the industrial and institutional structure of countries ...
Manegdo Ulrich Doamba
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Microeconomics of Technology Adoption [PDF]
There is an emerging consensus among macro-economists that differences in technology across countries accounts for the major differences in per-capita GDP and the wages of workers with similar skills across countries.
Andrew D. Foster, Mark R. Rosenzweig
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ABSTRACT Amid rising economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and escalating financial risks facing nonfinancial firms in China, this study investigates the impact of EPU on firm‐level risk exposure, with a particular focus on the moderating role of environmental, social, and governance(ESG) performance.
Yinan Fan, Sajid Anwar, Rui Long
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Making Large Classes Small(er): Assessing the Effectiveness Of a Hybrid Teaching Technology [PDF]
This paper examines learning outcomes in a one-semester introductory microeconomics course where contact time with the instructor was reduced by two-thirds and students were expected to view pre-recorded lectures on-line and come to class prepared to ...
Barb Bloemhof, John Livernois
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UK fiscal policy and external balance under Bretton Woods: Twin deficits or distant relatives?
Abstract The United Kingdom (UK) is typically regarded as the sine qua non case of an economy experiencing chronic external imbalances under the post‐war Bretton Woods system, apparently unable to reconcile the divergent objectives of robust economic growth and current account equilibrium.
Joshua J. Banerjee
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