[PDF] Top 20 NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES

... This paper examines the rationality of decision making of NBA scouts and executives by addressing the question of whether a player’s performance in the NCAA “March Madness” college championship basketball ... See full document

... In this paper, we investigate how personal bankruptcy law affects small firms’ access to credit. It is well known that the U.S. has separate bankruptcy procedures for individuals versus corporations. What is less ... See full document

... the paper, we turn to antitrust enforcement and competition policy, both because weakened antitrust policy offers a potential explanation for rising markups, but also because even if the main explanations lie ... See full document

... This paper examines the relationship between spot and futures prices for a broad range of commodities, including energy, precious and base metals, and agricultural ... See full document

... this paper, a particularly interesting finding in Table 3 is that the estimated coefficients for our two exchange rate regime indicators are significantly ... See full document

... This evidence suggests that the time inconsistent model of smoking is more appropriate, and that as a result welfare is improved by higher cigarette taxes.. Jonathan Gruber Sendhil Mulla[r] ... See full document

... We begin with our core question – unpacking why and how celebrity messages may matter – using variation we induced within celebrities in the nature and content of their tweets. To tease [r] ... See full document

... is working, now that the Chilean system has been in place long enough to have people reaching retirement age with a reasonably long working career under the new ... See full document

... Panel B in Figure 5 illustrates the time series evidence for the case of the United States. It depicts the top 1% income shares including realized capital gains (pictured with full diamonds) and excluding realized ... See full document

... Moreover, we perform a series of additional robustness checks to study alternative mechanisms that could be driving our results. A major potential objection to our in- terpretation is that the patterns of ... See full document

... After raising $375k (all amounts in USD) in seed funding from several high-profile Silicon Valley angel investors for an innovative e-paper display “Pebble” watch that enables users to interact with their Android ... See full document

... A discussion of a number of caveats regarding our environmental analysis is in order. First, the estimates of the environmental benefits are relatively crude, as they do not incorporate spatial heterogeneity of the ... See full document

... Sloan, NBER Behavioral Economics Working Group, NBER Household Finance workshop, NetSpar Torino, SAVE Deidesheim, and ESSFM Gerzensee as well as at the AEA and the AFA for their helpful ...Research. ... See full document

... The paper demonstrates that typical welfare-state redistribution policies, governed by a majority of the population, spreads the globalization’s gains from trade to all income groups, even those who are low ... See full document

... found working and earning more than a certain amount, the benefits are reduced $1 for every $2 in benefits beyond the earnings test amount, until benefits are ... See full document

... While these interventions were based on Pratham’s extensive knowledge of the situation on the ground, and on extensive piloting of ways to conduct effective meetings, it is reasonable to ask whether the interventions ... See full document

... Current account deficits in and by themselves are of course not necessarily bad, pro- vided the capital flows that occur to balance those deficits are put to productive use (e.g. infrast[r] ... See full document

... The second savings plan sponsored by the company is the QESPP. The features of this company’s employee stock purchase plan are fairly standard. The plan has two annual offering periods that begin on January 1 and July 1 ... See full document

... Assuming the husband's life insurance is positive, the theory predicts that properly valued income streams of the wife, including her labor earnings, public and private pension benefits,[r] ... See full document

... no paper trail by which they can be measured and ...a paper trail in the form of patent citations,” which can be followed to “test the extent of spillover ... See full document