Browsing PERC Publications by Title
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-03-10)Does the Federal Reserve have an “information advantage� in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-04-30)Does the Federal Reserve have an “information advantage� in forecasting macroeconomic variables beyond what is known to private sector forecasters? And are market participants reacting only to monetary policy shocks ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-12-01)Health care spending will always command public policy attention given the prominence of government payers in this market and the role played by the tax system in subsidizing health insurance purchases. But, with President-elect ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-02-01)This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-06-03)The homeownership rate was relatively stable for the few decades preceding 1995, followed by a large increase between 1995-2005 and a subsequent decline over the next ten years. Authors Eunseong Ma and Sarah Zubairy document ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-02-08)Since the Great Recession, policymakers have increasingly relied on fiscal policy to stabilize and stimulate the economy. This Winter 2022 issue of PERCspectives on Research summarizes a paper by PERC’s Shirley A. Lynch ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-11-02)This paper examines how the effects of government spending shocks depend on the balance-sheet position of households. Employing U.S. household survey data, the authors find that in response to a positive government spending ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-08-27)Monetary policy was used during the Great Recession to stimulate the U.S. economy, but were its effects dependent on prevailing levels of high household debt? In working paper 1806, PERC Professor Sarah Zubairy and coauthor ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-10-09)During past recessions like the Great Recession, policy makers sought to boost the economy through fiscal and monetary policy changes. Taking into account the economy’s slow recovery, how effective were the monetary ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-10-01)Childhood obesity is a growing public health concern among many industrialized countries. Authors Meer and Lim present a clear view on the effect of social networks on BMI for adolescents from randomly-assigned seventh ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-08-01)Obesity among children is an important public health concern, and social networks may play a role in students' habits that increase the likelihood of being overweight. We examine data from South Korean middle schools, where ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-10-10)This atypical election cycle has diverted attention from the growing evidence that premiums for health insurance sold on the exchanges are rising while options have declined. Health expenditures are also again growing ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2018-04-01)A regular misconception is that Saudi Arabia is the largest producer of energy from oil and natural gas. Despite massive oil production, Saudi Arabia produces less than 1% of total energy from oil and gas. The U.S. currently ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-08-11)The authors investigate two related approaches to dealing with the possible joint repsonse bias in using Kuttner's approach to identifying monetary policy's impact on stock returns - the methodology recently suggested by ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-09-01)Can state and federal policies deter undocumented workers from entering the U.S.? In Working Paper 1604, PERC's Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman, address this timely and critical immigration policy ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-09-01)Can state and federal policies deter undocumented workers from entering the U.S.? In Working Paper 1604, PERC's Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra, and Sandra Orozco-Aleman, address this timely and critical immigration policy ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2021-06-03)Recent years have witnessed the emergence of increasingly provocative anti-immigrant politicians in both Europe and the United States. The authors examine whether the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who made illegal immigration ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2014-12-01)At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2015-05-01)
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2017-10-01)For decades, colleges and universities have focused on increasing racial diversity on college campuses through targeted policy efforts. Authors Hoekstra, Carrell and West investigate whether diversity causes members of the ...