@moneyscience - RT @advertisingbuzz: DMG Unveils Traffiliate for Mobile...
@moneyscience - RT @advertisingbuzz: DMG Unveils Traffiliate for Mobile Advertising - TMC Net http://t.co/gUFsyrZ #mobileadvertising
View ArticleCycles, Gaps, and the Social Value of Information -- by George-Marios...
What are the welfare effects of the information contained in macroeconomic statistics, central-bank communications, or news in the media? We address this question in a business-cycle framework that...
View ArticleCapital Flow Types, External Financing Needs, and Industrial Growth: 99...
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries, 99 countries, 1991-2007, extending Rajan-Zingales (1998). We utilize external...
View ArticleThe Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater...
This paper studies the real estate brokerage industry in Greater Boston, an industry with low entry barriers and substantial turnover. Using a comprehensive dataset of agents and transactions from...
View ArticleSchool Competition and Teacher Labor Markets: Evidence from Charter School...
I analyze changes in teacher turnover, hiring, effectiveness, and salaries at traditional public schools after the opening of a nearby charter school. While I find small effects on turnover overall,...
View ArticleThe Effects of Health Shocks on Employment and Health Insurance: The Role of...
We study how men's dependence on their own employer for health insurance affects labor supply responses and loss of health insurance coverage when faced with a serious health shock. Men with...
View ArticleCaution, Drivers! Children Present: Traffic, Pollution, and Infant Health --...
Since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA), atmospheric concentration of local pollutants has fallen drastically. A natural question is whether further reductions will yield additional health...
View ArticleConglomerate Industry Spanning -- by Gerard Hoberg, Gordon M. Phillips
We use text-based analysis of business descriptions from 10-Ks filed with the SEC to examine in which industries conglomerates are most likely to operate and to understand conglomerate valuations. We...
View ArticleCompeting with Costco and Sam's Club: Warehouse Club Entry and Grocery Prices...
Prior research shows grocery stores reduce prices to compete with Walmart Supercenters. This study finds evidence that the competitive effects of two other big box retailers - Costco and Walmart-owned...
View ArticleSources of Entropy in Representative Agent Models -- by David Backus, Mikhail...
We propose two metrics for asset pricing models and apply them to representative agent models with recursive preferences, habits, and jumps. The metrics describe the pricing kernel's dispersion (the...
View ArticlePost-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada: What...
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of...
View ArticleUnderstanding Cross-National Trends in High-Tech Renewable Power Equipment...
We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI...
View ArticleThe "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and...
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the...
View ArticleEconomic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to...
We employ the conjectural approach to estimate the growth of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the mid-Atlantic region (Del., NJ, NY and Penn). In contrast to previous studies of the...
View ArticleAn Optimal Tax System -- by Louis Kaplow
A notable feature and principal virtue of Tax by Design is its system-wide perspective on different elements of the tax system. This review essay builds on this trait and offers a more explicit...
View ArticleFuture Skill Shortages in the U.S. Economy? -- by David Neumark, Hans P....
The impending retirement of the baby boom cohort represents the first time in the history of the United States that such a large and well-educated group of workers will exit the labor force. This could...
View ArticleEarly Maternal Employment and Family Wellbeing -- by Pinka Chatterji, Sara...
This study uses longitudinal data from the NICHD Study on Early Child Care (SECC) to examine the effects of maternal employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health,...
View ArticleHFT: NYT on HF traders battling rules. $12.9b profit last 2 yrs....
HFT: NYT on HF traders battling rules. $12.9b profit last 2 yrs. http://tinyurl.com/42g8en6 #finance #trading #quant #hft
View ArticleHFT: NYT on HF traders battling rules. $12.9b profit last 2 yrs....
HFT: NYT on HF traders battling rules. $12.9b profit last 2 yrs. http://tinyurl.com/42g8en6 #finance #trading #quant #hft
View ArticleEmanuelDerman: @carenbohan Summers:"punishing creditors for the sake of...
EmanuelDerman: @carenbohan Summers:"punishing creditors for the sake of teaching lessons was reckless in a system that depends on confidence" Pretty funny.
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