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Political Accountability During Crises: Evidence From 40 Years of Financial Policies

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We show that politicians facing a binding term limit are more likely to engage in financial deliberalization than those facing reelection, but only in the wake of a financial crisis. In particular, they implement policies that tend to favor incumbent financial institutions over the general population, such as increasing barriers to entry in ...
Orkun Saka, Yuemei Ji, Clement Minaudier
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneous Markups Cyclicality and Monetary Policy

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies aggregate markup cyclicality through firm‐level heterogeneity, reallocation, and aggregation. Using the U.S. firm data for 1990–2016, we find that markups are procyclical for young firms and countercyclical for older firms following monetary policy shocks. Economic activity also reallocates modestly toward young firms.
Andrea Chiavari   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Population health and health sector cost impacts of the UK Soft Drinks Industry Levy: a modelling study

open access: yes, 2023
Cobiac LJ   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Collective Bargaining and Monopsony: The Regulation of Noncompete Agreements in France

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can collective bargaining mitigate monopsony power? This paper studies the extent to which collective agreements regulating employee noncompete clauses affect firm‐level markdowns in French manufacturing. Using a staggered difference‐in‐differences design, we find that such regulation reduces markdowns by 1.3%–2.2% on average.
Tito Boeri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Worker Heterogeneity and the Effect of Noncompetes on Firm Performance

open access: yesJournal of Economics &Management Strategy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using staggered state‐level changes in noncompete enforceability, we document that reduced enforcement increases profitability, valuation, productivity, and plant‐level growth in knowledge‐worker‐intensive firms relative to other firms. Critically, these gains are concentrated among the most productive knowledge‐worker firms, consistent with ...
Zhaozhao He, Modupe Babajide Wintoki
wiley   +1 more source

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