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Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
(2007-02-26)
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike ...
Information Bundling in a Dynamic Environment
(2001-10)
Markets for digital information goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to information goods' flexibility and negligible marginal cost. In this paper we compare the dynamic ...
Do Labor Market Rigidities have Microeconomic Effects? Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-08)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food ...
Behavioral Public Finance: Tax Design as Price Presentation
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-03)
In this essay we review the evidence from marketing research about price presentation of consumer products and discuss how these lessons have been applied—consciously or unconsciously—in the design of the U.S. tax system. ...
Unemployment in East and West Europe
(2007-04)
In this paper, we use 1991-2005 panel data on the unemployed, vacancies, inflow into unemployment, and outflow from unemployment in five former communist economies and in the western part of Germany (a benchmark western ...
Quantifying the uncertainty about the half-life of deviations from PPP
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-03)
We propose a Bayesian framework in which the uncertainty about the half-life of deviations from purchasing power parity can be quantified. Based on the responses to a survey study, we propose a prior probability distribution ...
Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens
(2004)
How does the opportunity to use tax havens influence economic activity in nearby non-haven countries? Analysis of affiliate-level data indicates that American multinational firms use tax haven affiliates to reallocate ...
Early Retirement Windows
(Michigan Retirement Research Center, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, 2003-12)
What happens to the employment status and earnings of workers who accept earlyretirement windows? Using data from the first six waves of HRS (1992-2002) I find that those who accepted window offers experience a sharp decline ...
System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals
(2000-09)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities and decreases in the costs of computers and communi-cation networks have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. In one dimension, traditional pricing ...