Browsing PERC Publications by Title
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-06-25)Motivated by the observed beef and livestock market impacts of coronavirus-caused meatpacking plant shutdowns, this paper constructs a theoretical model to study the effects of closures among downstream producers on both ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-10-01)Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Covid-19 infections at meatpacking plants led to shutdowns across the United States. Beef became scarcer and with higher consumer prices, while ranchers received lower prices for their beef. ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-07-01)With the intent of stimulating domestic investment and employment, the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 included a provision under section 965 that allowed for a one-time tax deduction on repatriated dividends. In ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-08-21)PERC Professor Danila Serra, along with Klaus Abbink and Dmitry Ryvkin employ laboratory experiments to examine the effects of corrupt law enforcement on crime within a society. The authors embed corruption in a social ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-09-17)The Internal Revenue Service has released updated county-to-county migration data based on matched household tax returns filed through 2019. In this issue of Data Points, authors Carlos Navarro and Andrew Rettenmaier compare ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-10-13)At almost the onset of the effects of the pandemic, the Federal Reserve engaged in a massive asset expansion that was truly unprecedented. In just the first three months of the pandemic, March, April and May of 2020, the ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-05-06)Government transfer programs to distribute food, water, or electricity at low or no cost have been widespread during the COVID-19 global health crisis. How does program design affect the efficiency and distributional ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-30)The first warnings from health officials of an oncoming wave of infections began in late 2019. As the Covid-19 public health crisis rapidly spread, it was often followed by deep economic downturns that disproportionately ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-04-28)Looking beyond today’s fiscal problems in the U.S., the debate about the how to best incorporate the well-being of subsequent generations in current public policy discussions continues. Authors Liqun Liu, Andrew J. ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-04-12)In economics, as in many other academic disciplines, it is common for departments to invite external speakers to give research talks in academic seminars. These invited seminars are a primary way that academic economists ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-05-01)Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)Despite an extensive literature on the impacts of a variety of charitable fundraising tech-niques, little is known about whether these activities increase overall giving or merely cause donors to substitute away from other ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-12-03)Given the extensively documented evidence that increases in female labor force participation rate are beneficial for the economy in the long run, a natural question that arises in this context is whether policy changes can ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-04-01)When learning to play a game well, does it help to play against an opponent who makes the same sort of mistakes one tends to make or is it better to play against a procedurally rational algorithm, which never makes mistakes? ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-30)What role does race have in cases of police use of force? This issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes the paper by Rex B. Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and Graduate Student Fellow CarlyWill Sloan, which examines how ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-03-10)While there is much concern about the role of race in police use of force, identifying causal effects is difficult. This is in part because of selection, and in part because researchers often observe only interactions ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-05-01)Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimensions:structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-04-01)Even within the same market, firms vary across a number of dimension--structure, production capacity, market experience, and general core competency. If you go as far as to observe individual managers, you will find resumes ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-07-05)In this paper, the authors investigate how the old generation income structure affects aggregate equity purchases, using Flows of Funds Accounts and Survey of Consumer Finances. Results suggest that the risk aversion that ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-09-21)In the United States, politicians and the public alike have again sounded the call to raise the federal minimum wage, citing unlivable earnings and high consumer prices due to rising inflation, but would an increase actually ...