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The Culture and Discourse of Climate Skepticism
(2010-11)
Working paper abstract (100-250 words): While the scientific, technical and policy components of the climate change issue are of critical importance, climate change is also a cultural issue. More importantly, it is a highly ...
The Impact of Capital Measurement Error Correction on Firm-Level Production Function Estimation
(2012-01-01)
Based on a large panel of Czech manufacturing firms, we estimate firm-level production functions in 2003–2007 using the Levinsohn and Petrin (2003) and Wooldridge (2009) approaches, correcting for the measurement error in ...
How to Stir Up FDI Spillovers: Evidence from a Large Meta-Analysis
(2011-11-01)
The voluminous empirical research on horizontal productivity spillovers from foreign investors to domestic firms in transition and developing countries has yielded mixed results. In this paper, we collect 1,205 estimates ...
Social security health insurance for the informal sector in Nicaragua: a randomized evaluation
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-09)
This article presents the results from an experimental evaluation of a voluntary health insurance program for informal sector workers in Nicaragua. Costs of the premiums as well as enrollment location were randomly allocated. ...
The Real Costs of Corporate Credit Ratings
(2013-11)
Credit rating agencies emphasize the importance of specific financial ratio thresholds in their rating process. Firms on the favorable side of these thresholds are more likely to receive higher ratings than similar firms ...
Transmission Lags of Monetary Policy: A Meta-Analysis
(2012-10-01)
The transmission of monetary policy to the economy is generally thought to have long and variable lags. In this paper we quantitatively review the modern literature on monetary transmission in transition and developed ...
Estimating the effect of a gasoline tax on carbon emissions
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011-11)
Recently the proposal has been made to raise gasoline taxes in the United States to curb carbon emissions. The existing literature on the sensitivity of gasoline consumption to changes in price may not be appropriate for ...
Business Information: Help and Resources are Closer than they Appear
(2014-04-25)
Libraries everywhere are faced with many challenges: shrinking physical spaces, decreasing budgets and increasing demand, just to name a few. Over the last few years, the State of Michigan has placed more of an emphasis ...
Why Guarantee Employment? Three Essays on the World’s Largest Public-Works Program.
(2014)
The Indian government started implementing the world’s largest public-works program, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), in 2006. With a legal guarantee of 100 days of public employment per year for all ...
Integrating facility location and production planning decisions
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
We consider a metric uncapacitated facility location problem where we must assign each customer to a facility and meet the demand of the customer in future time periods through production and inventory decisions at the ...