We assess the contribution of national (country-wide) and international data to the task of forecasting the real GDP of Canadian provinces. Using the targeting predictors approach of Bai and Ng (2008) [Bai, J., Ng, S., 2008. Forecasting economic time series using targeted predictors. Journal of...

We conducted experiments within a firm to measure the risk preferences of workers who face substantial daily income risk. We find that these workers are significantly more risk-tolerant than individuals from the broader population. This is consistent with sorting: risk-tolerant workers are...