The Effect of Insurance Expansions on Smoking Cessation Medication Use:...
In this study we explore the early effects of recent Medicaid expansions on prescriptions and Medicaid payments for evidence-based smoking cessation prescription medications: Zyban, Chantix, and...
View ArticleSpeculative Dynamics of Prices and Volume -- by Anthony A. DeFusco, Charles...
We present a dynamic theory of prices and volume in asset bubbles. In our framework, predictable price increases endogenously attract short-term investors more strongly than long-term investors....
View ArticleTempered Particle Filtering -- by Edward Herbst, Frank Schorfheide
The accuracy of particle filters for nonlinear state-space models crucially depends on the proposal distribution that mutates time t-1 particle values into time t values. In the widely-used bootstrap...
View ArticleThe Life Cycle of Scholarly Articles across Fields of Research -- by...
Aggregate citation behavior plays a key role in scientific knowledge diffusion, as citations document the collective and cumulative nature of knowledge production. Additionally, citations are commonly...
View ArticleThe Effect of Malpractice Law on Physician Supply: Evidence from...
We explore whether the composition of the physician work force is impacted by the clinical standards imposed on physicians under medical liability rules. We theorize that physicians of particular...
View ArticleDoes Choice Increase Information? Evidence from Online School Search Behavior...
We examine whether changes in the local school choice environment affect the amount of information parents collect about local school quality, using data on over 100 million searches from...
View ArticleHealth Plan Payment in U.S. Marketplaces: Regulated Competition with a Weak...
The Affordable Care Act Marketplaces were introduced in 2014 as part of a reform of the U.S. individual health insurance market. While the individual market represents a small slice of the U.S....
View ArticleRethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs: The Heterogeneous...
This paper reports the results of two randomized field experiments, each offering different populations of youth a supported summer job in Chicago. In both experiments, the program dramatically reduces...
View ArticleEarning your CAP: A Comprehensive Analysis of The University of Texas...
The competitive application process is the traditional path to gain access to selective public universities. There is little research on alternative pathways to gain access to selective public...
View ArticleChina's Lost Generation: Changes in Beliefs and their Intergenerational...
Beliefs about whether effort pays off govern some of the most fundamental choices individuals make. This paper uses China's Cultural Revolution to understand how these beliefs can be affected, how they...
View ArticleHow Do Peers Impact Learning? An Experimental Investigation of Peer-to-Peer...
Classroom peers are believed to influence learning by teaching each other, and the efficacy of this teaching likely depends on classroom composition in terms of peers' ability. Unfortunately, little is...
View ArticleThe Effect of Prior Choices on Expectations and Subsequent Portfolio...
We document that prior portfolio choices influence investors' expectations about asset values, and their future choices. We find that people update more from information consistent with their prior...
View ArticleInnovative Originality, Profitability, and Stock Returns -- by David...
We propose that innovative originality (InnOrig) is a valuable organizational resource, and that owing to limited investor attention and skepticism of complexity, firms with greater InnOrig are...
View ArticleHKEX: Margin Rates For SOHO China Ltd. After Capital Adjustment
As previously advised in the circular (Ref.: MO/DT/045/17) dated 24 March 2017, capital adjustments as a result of the Special Dividend will be made to the positions of SOHO China Ltd. (“SOH”) Futures...
View ArticleDeutsche Börse Cash Market: Six New BNP Paribas ETCs On Industrial...
Six new exchange traded commodities (ETCs) issued by BNP Paribas Arbitrage Issuance B.V. have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Monday. The new ETCs enable investors to participate in...
View ArticleLSEG To Acquire The Yield Book And Citi Fixed Income Indices
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has reached an agreement with Citigroup Inc. (Citi) to acquire The Yield Book and Citi Fixed Income Indices, a fixed income analytics platform and index business...
View ArticleChubb Appoints Kyle Bryant Regional Cyber Risk Manager For Europe
Chubb today announced the appointment of Kyle Bryant to the newly-created role of Regional Cyber Risk Manager, Europe.read more...
View ArticleSIX Swiss Exchange Survey: Block Trading Remains A Growth Area Despite Trader...
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