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Revisionist Economic History? Potential GDP in the United States
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-01)
U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has finally caught up with the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates of potential GDP as of late 2017, even though the National Bureau of Economic Research dates the end of the Great ...
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Testing Risk Dominance and Payoff Dominance in Repeated Global Stag Hunt Games
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-01-01)
This article was published as part of the PERCspectives on Research Newsletter, Winter 2015 Edition.
Prior Commitments
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-05-01)
The US Government's total liabilities were $22.8 trillion in 2016. The liabilities include the familiar debt held by the public of $14.2 trillion. They also include the accrued pension and other retirement benefits payable ...
Tradeoffs for Downside Risk-Averse Decision-Makers and the Self-Protection Decision
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-09-01)
Agents who are averse to increases in downside risk are defined as being averse to changes that shift a certain amount of risk to a lower income level. For downside risk averse decision makers, there are several tradeoffs ...
Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency? Evidence from Electricity Markets
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-07-11)
The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC ...
Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, October 2018
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-10-22)
The Business-Cycle Index rose at an annualized rate of 4.3% in August, down slightly from the revised growth rate for July. The unemployment rate remained at 2.9% in August, a full percentage point lower than the state and ...
The Impact of Teacher-Student Gender Matches: Random Assignment Evidence from South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-11-23)
Gender disparities in academic performance may be driven in part by the interaction of teacher and student gender, but systematic sorting of students into classrooms makes it difficult to identify causal effects. The authors ...
Tax Reform...
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-01-18)
The passage of the biggest tax reform bill in decades, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, comes with a substantial cut in the corporate tax rate and vast changes to the individual income tax code. In the PERCspectives on Policy ...