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Monetary Policy Uncertainty: A Tale of Two Tails
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-11-12)
During the last few decades, central banks across the globe came to recognize the potentially valuable role that transparency can play in stabilizing the economy. For example, the Federal Reserve in the US started releasing ...
Does Maternity Leave Duration Affect Labor Force Participation and Productivity?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Probability Premium Approach to Comparative Risk Aversion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-04-23)
In the framework of expected utility, nth-degree risk aversion/loving is unequivocally characterized by the sign of the nth-order derivative of the utility function, but there exist different notions of one decision maker ...
The Great Recession and Charitable Giving
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2017-03-01)
The authors examine the impact of the Great Recession on charitable giving. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the authors estimate a variety of specifications and find sharp declines in overall don-ative behavior ...
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 ...
Am I the Big Fish? The Effect of Self-Perceived Ordinal Rank on Student Academic Performance in Middle School
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-12-20)
In the educational setting, it is well known that relative achievement can affect individual outcomes. The ordinal academic rank of a student may affect the student’s academic achievement through a student’s self-confidence, ...
Inflation Dynamics and the Cost Channel: The Small Open Economy Case
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-19)
This paper investigates the cost channel of monetary policy, transmitting its effect on economic activities other than conventional demand side, in a small open economy. The innovations lie in examination of the cost ...
Fear the Machine?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2018-03-30)
Advanced automation and artificial intelligence, or ‘robot’ technology use, continues to expand across many industries. Recent decreasing labor market movements fuels the question: How do these technologies affect ...
The Higher Costs of Doing Business in China: Minimum Wages and Firms' Export Behavior
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Peer Quality and the Academic Benefits to Attending Better Schools
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-09-18)
Despite strong demand for attending high schools with better peers, there is mixed evidence on whether doing so improves academic outcomes. The authors estimate the cognitive returns to high school quality using administrative ...