The Effect of State Medicaid Expansions on Prescription Drug Use: Evidence...
This study provides a national analysis of how the 2014 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansions have affected aggregate prescription drug utilization. Given the prominent role of prescription...
View Article'Acting Wife': Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments -- by...
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions could signal personality traits, like ambition, that are undesirable in the marriage market? We answer this question through two...
View ArticlePrestige and Profit: The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation,...
Debates have long centered around the relative merits of prizes and other incentives for technological innovation. Some economists have cited the experience of the prestigious Royal Society of Arts...
View ArticlePolitical Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication...
We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and...
View ArticleLocation Choice, Portfolio Choice -- by Ioannis Branikas, Harrison Hong,...
Households hold nondiversified stock portfolios of firms headquartered near their city of residence. Explanations assign a causal role for proximity, either in generating an informational advantage or...
View ArticleMisallocation, Selection and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis with Panel...
We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the extent and consequences of factor misallocation in agriculture. We find that there are substantial frictions in...
View ArticleBirth Order and Delinquency: Evidence from Denmark and Florida -- by Sanni N....
Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems...
View ArticleThe Missing Bretton Woods Debate over Flexible Exchange Rates -- by Douglas...
The collapse of the gold standard in the 1930s sparked a debate about the merits of fixed versus floating exchange rates. Yet the debate quickly vanished: there was almost no discussion about the...
View ArticleReversed Citations and the Localization of Knowledge Spillovers -- by Ashish...
Spillover of knowledge is considered to be an important cause of agglomeration of inventive activity. Many studies argue that knowledge spillovers are localized based on the observation that patents...
View ArticleDo Anti-Poverty Programs Sway Voters? Experimental Evidence from Uganda -- by...
A Ugandan government program allowed groups of young people to submit proposals to start skilled enterprises. Among 535 eligible proposals, the government randomly selected 265 to receive grants of...
View ArticleOwnership Concentration and Strategic Supply Reduction -- by Ulrich...
We explore the sensitivity of the U.S. government's ongoing incentive auction to multi-license ownership by broadcasters. We document significant broadcast TV license purchases by private equity firms...
View ArticleWinter is Coming: The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict,...
We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge...
View Article7 Methods To Crush Your First Draft
So, you have a great idea for a research paper. Now all you have to do is write it. If only that were as easily done as it was for you to say you’re going to do. Theses can spend years marinating in...
View ArticleHow Deutsche Bank Made a $462 Million Loss Disappear
How Deutsche Bank Made a $462 Million Loss Disappear. A dubious trade leads to a criminal trial https://t.co/7rHJyyv9y3 â moneyscience (@moneyscience) Januaryâ¦
View ArticleLibor scandal: the bankers who fixed the worldâs most important number...
Long Read: Libor scandal: the bankers who fixed the worldâs most important number https://t.co/0wJn4TmjO3 â moneyscience (@moneyscience) January 20, 2017
View ArticleNonprofit Kit For Dummies, 5th Edition
Need practical advice on running a nonprofit? No problem! Packed with the latest tips and techniques on starting and managing a charitable organization, this easy-to-follow guide offers everything you...
View ArticleLinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies
Your LinkedIn profile is essentially a platform to shape how others see you, highlight your abilities, products, or services, and explain how your work impacts lives. Yet many people simply copy and...
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Photo Credit: eflon || The title of the article comes from a comment Greenberg supposedly made to Buffett when AIG was much bigger than Berkshire Hathaway — times change…read more...
View ArticleThat Whole Oculus Lawsuit Hinges on What Makes Code âNewâ
What exactly does it mean to steal code? https://t.co/OQtczXQauQ â Financial Technology (@fin_tech) January 21, 2017
View ArticleBank monitoring incentives under moral hazard and adverse selection....
In this paper, we extend the optimal securitization model of Pag\`es [41] and Possama\"i and Pag\`es [42] between an investor and a bank to a setting allowing both moral hazard and adverse selection....
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