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Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to … Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Morck, Randall K. - 2005

, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

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Central Bank Credibility : An Historical and Quantitative Exploration

Bordo, Michael D. - 2015

In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...

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Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael - 2014

This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...

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Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring unit prices within narrowly...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2017

Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …

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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen - 2019

This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...

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