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threatened Turkey and Argentina (2000 and 2001) and most recently Brazil (again). This article discusses the reform of the …
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exploiting variation in the effects of the reform on bankruptcy risk across credit-score segments. Using a combination of … administrative records, credit reports, and proprietary market-research data, we find that the reform reduced bankruptcy filings, and …
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study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked …
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We study the welfare effects of disability insurance (DI) and derive social-optimality conditions for the two main DI policy parameters: (i) DI eligibility rules and (ii) DI benefits. Causal evidence from two DI reforms in Austria generate fiscal multipliers (total over mechanical cost...
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Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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The system of means-tested transfers in the U.S. has evolved in important ways over the last decade, with significant expansions of Medicaid , the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Security Income program, and with significant contraction in Aid to Families with Dependent Children,...
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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which … behavior after the reform, and the volume spike in the fixing window disappeared. However, the anomalies on price dynamics … to examine the efficiency of banks' behavior after the reform. The volume pattern during the fixing time window suggests …
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evaluate using a unique reform. In 2005, Hungary switched from a single-step UI system to a two-step system, with unchanged …
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their innovations. Upon the reform, Norway moved toward the typical U.S. model, where the university holds majority rights … patenting rates by university researchers after the reform. Quality measures for university start-ups and patents also decline …
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We measure the aggregate effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment and the labor force. We exploit the variation induced by Congress' failure in December 2013 to reauthorize the unprecedented benefit extensions introduced during the Great Recession. Federal benefit extensions that...
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