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1also available:Exemplare Uni Bonn from 1886
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2“...This article characterizes optimal policy when a government uses indirect control to exert its authority. We develop a dynamic principal-agent model in which a...”
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3“...Many cities in North America formed at obstacles to water navigation, where continued transport required overland hauling or portage. Portage sites attracted...”
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4by Stein, Jeremy C Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...This article develops a model that speaks to the goals and methods of financial stability policies. There are three main points. First, from a normative...”
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5by Besley, Timothy J Burchardi, Konrad B Ghatak, Maitreesh Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...This paper explores the consequences of improving property rights to facilitate the use of fixed assets as collateral, popularly attributed to the influential...”
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6by Kling, Jeffrey R Wrobel, Marian V Shafir, Eldar Vermeulen, Lee C Mullainathan, Sendhil Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...Consumers need information to compare alternatives for markets to function efficiently. Recognizing this, public policies often pair competition with easy...”
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7by Bayer, Patrick Anwar, Shamena Hjalmarsson, Randi Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...This article examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We use a...”
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8by Berman, Nicolas Mayer, Thierry Martin, Philippe Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...This article analyzes the heterogeneous reaction of exporters to real exchange rate changes using a very rich French firm-level data set with...”
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9by Gabaix, Xavier Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...This article incorporates a time-varying severity of disasters into the hypothesis proposed by and Barro (2006) that risk premia result from the possibility of...”
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10“...In 2003, a new law required that 40% of Norwegian firms' directors be women--at the time only 9% of directors were women. We use the prequota cross-sectional...”
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11by Jensen, Robert Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...Do labor market opportunities for women affect marriage and fertility decisions? We provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly...”
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12“...This article studies market competition when firms can influence consumers' ability to compare market alternatives through their choice of price "formats." In...”
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13“...This article establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs data on the universe of Chinese trade flows. First, across firms...”
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14“...Why are episodes of sovereign default accompanied by deep recessions? The existing literature cannot answer this question. On one hand, sovereign default...”
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15by DellaVigna, Stefano Malmendier, Ulrike List, John Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...Every year, 90% of Americans give money to charities. Is such generosity necessarily welfare enhancing for the giver? We present a theoretical framework that...”
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16by Zhang, Yuanjun Merlob, Brian Plott, Charles R Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...We report on the experimental results of simple auctions with (i) a median-bid pricing rule and (ii) nonbinding bids (winning bids can be withdrawn)--the two...”
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17“...We estimate the effect of new private-sector unionization on publicly traded firms' equity value in the United States over the 1961--1999 period using a newly...”
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18by von Wachter, Till Bender, Stefan Schmieder, Johannes F Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...One goal of extending the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) in recessions is to increase UI coverage in the face of longer unemployment spells. Although...”
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19by Rauch, Ferdinand Michaels, Guy Redding, Stephen James Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...We examine urbanization using new data that allow us to track the evolution of population in rural and urban areas in the United States from 1880 to 2000. We...”
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20by Tsyvinski, Aleh Acemoglu, Daron Golosov, Mikhail Yared, Pierre Published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (2012)“...We develop a dynamic theory of resource wars and study the conditions under which such wars can be prevented. Our focus is on the interaction between the...”