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Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard +2 more
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What explains high unemployment? The aggregate demand channel [PDF]
A drop in aggregate demand driven by shocks to household balance sheets is responsible for a large fraction of the decline in U.S. employment from 2007 to 2009.
Amir Sufi, Atif R. Mian
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract An important debate in the field of strategy and industrial organization economics has long focused on whether the industry environment or firm idiosyncrasies have a greater impact on firm performance. However, cooperatives have been excluded from this inquiry, despite profits being the primary means to achieve their social objectives.
Pablo Doucet, Marta Solórzano‐García
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Local multipliers in tradables and non-tradables
, 2017 In this thesis, I study the local employment multiplier effect; the effect of employment in the tradable sector on employment in the non-tradable sector of the same region. Using a reduced form regression with a shift-share instrument I find a significant local multiplier effect in Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the USA.
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Reallocation of Resources within the National Productive System in Bolivia: A View from the Perspective of Tradable and Non-Tradable Goods [PDF]
This paper explores Bolivia’s current unemployment situation taking into account the reallocation of resources within the aggregate supply. The origin of this internal imbalance is due to negative impacts of external real exchange rate (RER) shocks, as ...
Sergio G. Villarroel-Böhrt
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Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Guided by behavioural economics, this paper examines the factors shaping members’ investments in tradable and appreciable preferred shares issued by their cooperatives. These shares possess characteristics of both bonds and long‐term equity, and when tradable, they acquire a market value that helps mitigate issues related to the vaguely ...
Julia Höhler +3 more
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Prices vs. Quantities vs. Tradable Quantities [PDF]
This paper extends Weitzman's (1974) seminal paper comparing price and quantity instruments for regulation to consider a third option: tradable quantity regulations, such as tradable permits.
Roberton Williams
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Collective Wage Co‐ordination and the Costs of Job Displacement
British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether a higher level of co‐ordination in collective wage bargaining affects the wage costs of job displacement. We use quasi‐exogenous variation in the timing of job loss due to mass layoffs spanning an institutional reform that introduced national ceilings to wage agreements negotiated at sectoral‐ and firm‐level—the
Sofía Fernández‐Guerrico +1 more
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Colonial wars and trade restrictions: Fighting for exclusive trading rights
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, in which two metropolises compete for control over a colony's trade policy. In equilibrium, the metropolis that gains control can improve its terms of trade by restricting its rival's access to colonial trade.
Ivan G. Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens
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Mexico: Determinants of the real exchange rate, 2001.01-2022.12. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Loría E, Nalin L.
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