Women account for a small share of all business owners and a small share of the market in India’s manufacturing sector. To account for these patterns, I estimate the extent of gender-specific distortions to operating a business using firm-level data. Feeding these estimates that differ across...

At the recent National Budget Speech, it was announced that South African pension funds and Regulation 28 (Reg28) compliant funds are now allowed to allocate up to 45% of their total portfolio to offshore investments. The obvious question is then: What is the optimal offshore allocation for...

Unemployment insurance and wage subsidies are key tools to support labor markets in recessions. We develop a multi-sector search and matching model with on-the-job human capital accumulation to study labor market policy responses to sector-specific shocks. Our calibration accounts for structural...

The conflict between the increased parking demand and limited curbside space calls for efficient on-street parking management. Among various parking demands, unsatisfied freight and service vehicles could cause high societal costs. Research has found that these two types of vehicles have major...

A former CEO of a large and successful public company teams up with a former chief investment strategist and a well‐known academic to suggest ten practices for public companies intent on creating long‐run value:. These practices, as the authors note in closing, “are meant to provide a...

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of output price increases. We find higher wages but no...