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Government Intervention and Arbitrage
(2017-03)
We model and document the novel notion that direct government intervention in a market may induce violations of the law of one price (LOP) in other, arbitrage-related markets. We show that the introduction of a government ...
Capital Liquidity, Productivity Dispersion and Market Structure
(2007-05)
We propose an industry-level index of capital liquidity -- defined as the share of used capital in aggregate industry capital expenditure -- that relates (inversely) to sunkenness of capital investment. We then test the ...
Principal International Businesses
(2012-09-05)
This is a dataset of the 50,000 largest firms in the world over the period 1978-2007. The data included are employment, total sales, year the firm was started, SIC codes for the firm's activities, and binary indicators for ...
A tale of two policies: The politics of climate forecasting and drought relief in Ceará, Brazil
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-06)
This paper evaluates the use of climate-based information in drought mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. It examines two policies – a seed-distribution program ( Hora de Plantar ) and the Emergency Drought-Relief Program ...
Software Process Models and Project Performance
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-10)
In this paper we review the progress in software process research and the role of process improvement in enhancing business outcomes of software projects. We first describe the process view of software development. Next, ...
The influence of actual and unrequited interventions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-04)
Intervention operations are used by governments to manage their exchange rates but officials rarely confirm their presence in the market, leading inevitably to erroneous reports in the financial press. There are also reports ...
On the Sequencing of Privatization in Transition Economies
(1997-04-01)
This paper presents an empirical criterion for establishing privatization priorities for state owned enterprises. The approach uses firm performance as the basis for deciding the sequence in which firms are privatized. ...
TDoes Product Differentiation Explain The Increase in Exports of Transition Countries?
(2003-07-01)
The paper analyzes the increase in transition countries’ exports to their non-traditional trade partners. It uses four different measures of product differentiation to find out the extent that the increase in product variety ...