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Are financing constraints binding for investment? Evidence from natural experiment
... This paper empirically tests the e¤ects of …nancing constraints and cost of cap- ital on investment using the 2006 Canadian income trusts tax reform as a natural experiment. Income trusts are two-layer ...
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Evaluation of the impact of calorie labeling on McDonald’s restaurant menus: a natural experiment
... a natural experiment to examine calorie purchases before and after voluntary calorie labeling at McDonald’s in 2012 compared to a group of control restau- rants: Burger King, Subway, KFC (except for ...
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Effectiveness of nurse home-visiting for disadvantaged families: results of a natural experiment
... The evaluation took advantage of a natural experiment created by differential geographic coverage of the South Australian Family Home-Visiting (SA-FHV) programme. At that time, a State-wide universal ...
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The international growth of emerging market firms : evidence from a natural experiment
... a natural experiment in which the independent variables of interest are measured prior to a major sudden and unanticipated regulatory shift in India’s outward investment policy and the dependent variable ...
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The impact of the minimum wage on Spanish youth: Evidence from a natural experiment
... a natural experiment consisting of the fact that the minimum wage for people aged 16 and 17, far below the standard minimum wage, was raised to reach full convergence with the latter over a period of three ...
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The effect of CEO option compensation on the capital structure : a natural experiment
... The natural experiment is done via a Triple Difference-in-Difference analysis. In the analysis, I use dummy variables for the post-period and treatment firms along with the interactions of these variables ...
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Learning, Search and Arbitrage - Evidence from a Natural Experiment
... a natural experiment which allows us to address several interesting ...The natural experiment is Poland’s big-bang transition to a market economy 1 ...
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Interbank contagion at work: evidence from a natural experiment
... The major problems in testing for financial contagion due to interbank linkages are (i) the lack of detailed data on interbank linkages during a crisis time, (ii) the dearth of large-bank failures, which implies a lack ...
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The Effect of Tracking Students by Ability into Different Schools A Natural Experiment
... the natural experiment under consideration has not modified the nature of the school system but only modified the relative size of the elite ...this experiment is the first to isolate the overall ...
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Social Security and Labour Supply: the Italian 1992 Reform as a Natural Experiment
... the natural experiment makes crucial the variation across groups for the identification of the coefficient attached to SSW, and I define two groups in order to maximize such variation in the ...
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The effect of CEO option compensation on the capital structure: A natural experiment
... The natural experiment is done via a Triple Difference-in-Difference analysis. In the analysis, I use dummy variables for the post-period and treatment firms along with the interactions of these variables ...
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Does Adverse Selection Matter? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
... An interesting feature with this insurance is that it was o¤ered to a whole popula- tion of patients, who previously had not been able to buy a supplementary insurance. Dental health, at the time the insurance was ...
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The effect of Pokémon Go on the pulse of the city: a natural experiment
... Pokémon Go, a location-based game that uses augmented reality techniques, received unprecedented media coverage due to claims that it allowed for greater access to public spaces, increasing the number of people out on ...
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Ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: a natural experiment study
... our natural experiment design may have been subject to other changes that simul- taneously contributed to the improvement of air quality during the Olympic ...
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Privatization and growth: natural experiment of European economies in transition
... quasi-natural experiment to study its effect on East-West Germany saving-ratio, income-ratio, and wealth ratio, Jones and Olken (2008) finding of ubiquitous growth “miracles” and “failures at ten-year ...
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Privatization and growth: natural experiment of European economies in transition
... quasi-natural experiment and difference-in-differences estimation to examine the growth effects of i) privatization/regime change from command to market economy and ii) joining the EU, using the ...
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Neighbourhood parks & physical activity: A natural experiment
... J Veitch, K Ball, D Crawford, G R Abbott, Jo Salmon Park improvements and park activity: A natural experiment.. Acknowledgements[r] ...
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Collateralization, Bank Loan Rates and Monitoring: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
... unique natural experiment enables us to isolate unambiguously the impact that collateral has on the loan rate, the borrower-specific credit supply, the bank’s internal measure of borrower risk, and its ...
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Gliomatosis peritonei as a natural experiment in tissue differentiation
... Gliomatosis peritonei as a natural experiment in tissue differentiation FRANCISCO F NOGALES*,1, OVIDIU PREDA2 and ISABEL DULCEY1 1Department of Pathology, San Cecilio University Hospital, Granada and[.] ...
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Evidence from a Natural Experiment in China
... In China, Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs) are a major tool financing health care consumption in urban areas. Whether MSAs control medical expenditures and encourage saving is based on an assumption that enrollees treat ...
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