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Kim, Moon Jung; Lee, Soohyung - 2020

all income groups increased their food and overall household spending, but the usage restriction may have affected …

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Consumption Response to Seoul's COVID-19 Shopping Coupons: Evidence from Consumer Data

Woo, Seokjin; Aum, Sangmin; Kim, Dohyung; Moon, Heyjin; … - 2021

This study measures the extent to which Seoul's COVID-19 shopping coupon program affects individuals' consumption. Unlike other COVID-19-related transfer programs, the Seoul Metropolitan government provides consumption coupons depending on income. We quantify the causal effect of Seoul's program...

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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Mexico

Rodriguez Castelan, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis-Felipe; … - 2020

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...

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Marketmaking Middlemen

Gautier, Pieter A.; Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto - 2016

This paper develops a model in which market structure is determined endogenously by the choice of intermediation mode. We consider two representative business modes of intermediation that are widely used in real-life markets: one is a middleman mode where an intermediary holds inventories which...

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Productivity Dynamics: The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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Left-Handedness and Economic Development

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Pensieroso, Luca - 2021

shape evolutionary forces, thus improving our understanding of the growth-diversity link. …

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Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical … division of land led to a more equal distribution of land; other potential drivers of growth are smooth at the boundary and … right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution. Higher top incomes and top wealth in equal division areas coincide …

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Women Have to Enter the Leadership Race to Win: Using Random Selection to Increase the Supply of Women into Senior Positions

Goodall, Amanda H.; Osterloh, Margit - 2015

'; ensure equality over time; raise the standard of candidates; reduce homophily to improve diversity of people and ideas; and …

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Is a flat tax feasible in a grown-up welfare state?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - 2007

reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …

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Is a Flat Tax Feasible in a Grown-up Welfare State?

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …

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