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Personality traits and the evaluation of start-up subsidies

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Weißenberger, Martin - 2016

. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional independence assumption (CIA), allowing a causal … success, these variables were neglected in evaluation studies so far due to data limitations. In this paper, we evaluate a new … start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

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Identifying the effects of place-based policies : causal evidence from German

Dettmann, Eva; Brachert, Matthias; Titze, Mirko - 2016

The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants, to identify the causal effects of the...

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The societal responses to Covid-19 : evidence from the G7 countries

Lima de Miranda, Katharina; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

of four main indexes: Solidarity (S), Agency (A), GDP (material Gain, G) and Environmental sustainability (E) - to … uncover the divergent experiences of countries in 2020. This paper focuses on the G7 countries - Canada, France, Germany …

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Global value chains, trade shocks and jobs : an application to Brexit

Vandenbussche, Hylke; Connell, William; Simons, Wouter - 2019

We develop a network trade model with country-sector level input-output linkages. It includes (1) domestic and global value chain linkages between all country-sectors, (2) direct as well as indirect shipments (via other sectors and countries) to a final destination, (3) value added rather than...

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The heterogeneous impact of Brexit : early indications from the FTSE

Davies, Ronald B.; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2017

The UK's decision to leave the EU is surrounded by several studies simulating its potential effects. Alternatively, we examine expectations embodied in stock returns using a two-part estimation process. While most firms' prices fell, there was considerable heterogeneity in their relative...

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Globally engaged firms in the Covid-19 crisis

Constantinescu, Cristina; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; … - 2022

This paper analyzes the initial impact and recovery of globally engaged firms from the COVID-19 crisis. It uses rich survey data of nearly 65,000 firm-year observations in 45 countries spanning three waves of data collection. The findings are organized in a series of stylized facts, which...

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Taxing our wealth

Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2020

This paper evaluates proposals for an annual wealth tax. While a dozen OECD countries levied wealth taxes in the recent past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a US wealth tax. Studies of these taxes sometimes, but...

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Economic sanctions and agricultural trade

Larch, Mario; Luckstead, Jeff; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Combining two new datasets on sanctions and agricultural trade and implementing step-by-step the latest developments in the empirical structural gravity literature, we investigate the effects of sanctions on international trade of agricultural products. We find that trade sanctions have been...

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The economic consequences of rising US government debt: privileges at risk

Bohn, Henning - 2010

The rapidly growing federal government debt has become a concern for policy makers and the public. Yet the U.S. government has seemingly unbounded access to credit at low interest rates. Historically, Treasury yields have been below the growth rate of the economy. The paper examines the...

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The impact of fiscal rules on public finances : theory and empirical evidence for the Euro area

Marneffe, Wim; Aarle, Bas van; Wielen, Wouter van der; … - 2010

policy ; policy rules ; fiscal sustainability …

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