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Essays on Law and Economics, Economics of Education, and Public Economics.
(2013)
The three chapters of this dissertation investigate three vastly different questions, bound together by the tools of economic analysis used to answer each. Chapter 1 is a theoretical model that looks at the behavior of ...
Financial Accounting Consequences of Temporary Tax Law: Evidence from the R&D Tax Credit.
(2013)
This paper investigates the extent to which extensions of a temporary tax law reduce market participants’ ability to predict and understand corporate earnings. Examining evidence from eight separate extensions of the R&D ...
The 90% Public Debt Threshold: The Rise & Fall of a Stylised Fact
(2013-05-01)
This paper analyses the original Reinhart-Rogoff dataset, made public by Herndon et al. (2013), on the basis of descriptive statistics and formal econometric testing.
Reactions to Shocks and Monetary Policy Regimes: Inflation Targeting Versus Flexible Currency Board in Ghana, South Africa and the WAEMU
(2013-11-01)
The aim of this paper is to examine the monetary policy actions through which the central banks in the Sub-Saharan African countries have searched to eliminate the negative impacts of the shocks facing their economies. We ...
Structural Reforms and Growth in Transition: A Meta-Analysis
(2013-08-01)
The present fiscal difficulties of many countries amplify the call for structural reforms. To provide stylized facts on how reforms worked in the past, we quantitatively review 60 studies estimating the relation between ...
ASRSM: A Sequential Experimental Design for Response Surface Optimization
(American Society of Mechanical EngineersWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2013-03)
INSTITUTIONAL POLYCENTRISM, ENTREPRENEURS’ SOCIAL NETWORKS, AND NEW VENTURE GROWTH
(2013-09-01)
What is the interrelationship among formal institutions, social networks, and new venture growth? Drawing on the theory of institutional polycentrism and social network theory, we examine this question using data on 637 ...
Financial Development and Economic Growth: A Meta-Analysis
(2013-03-01)
We analyze 1334 estimates from 67 studies that examine the effect of financial development on economic growth. Taken together, the studies imply a positive and statistically significant effect, but individual estimates ...