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Disability Benefits as Social Insurance: Tradeoffs Between Screening Stringency and Benefit Generosity in Optimal Program Design
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-04)
The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) system is designed to provide income security to workers in the event that health problems prevent them from working. In order to qualify for benefits, applicants must pass ...
The Economics of Corporate Tax Selfishness
(2004)
This paper offers an economics perspective on corporate tax noncompliance. It first reviews what is known about the extent and nature of corporate tax noncompliance and the resources devoted to enforcement. It then addresses ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
(2006-04-06)
Development implies that the efficiency of local firms converges to that of firms in advanced economies. We examine this using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in the Czech Republic and Russia. We ...
Cross-Border Trading as a Mechanism for Capital Flight: ADRs and the Argentine Crisis
(2002-11-01)
This paper examines the surprising performance of the Argentine stock market in the midst of the country’s most recent financial crisis and the role played by ADRs in Argentine capital flight. Although Argentine investors ...
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
(2004-09-01)
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both ...
Pricing and Bundling Electronic Information Goods: Experimental Evidence
(MIT Press, 2000)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities and decreases in the costs of computers and communication networks have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. In one dimension, traditional pricing ...
Pricing Information Bundles in a Dynamic Environment
(2001)
We explore a scenario in which a monopolist producer of information goods seeks to maximize its profits in a market where consumer demand shifts frequently and unpredictably. The producer is free to set an arbitrarily ...
The Economic Status of Elderly Divorced Women.
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-05)