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The Time Varying Effect of Monetary Policy Surprise on Stock Returns: Bursting Bubble Beating Forward Guidance
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-09)
The authors study the time varying effects of monetary policy on the stock returns in order to capture changes in the effectiveness of monetary policy over time. They find that a one percentage point surprise federal funds ...
Does Fundraising Create New Giving?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Does Strategic Ability Affect Efficiency?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Nonlinear Evidence on the Existence of Jobless Recoveries
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-07-01)
The sluggish growth in employment following the Great Recession has spurred research into investigating its cause. Economists are split as to whether it reflects the advent of “jobless recoveries� or just reflects ...
Is the Federal Reserve Independent?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-05-09)
The power to coin money and regulate the value thereof is constitutionally delegated to Congress, preventing true Federal Reserve independence. This issue of PERCspectives on Policy, by PERC Director Thomas Saving, discusses ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI?
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Intertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-01-01)
Power to Choose? An Analysis of Consumer Inertia in the Residential Electricity Market
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-06-01)
Many jurisdictions around the world have deregulated utilities and opened retail markets to competition. However, inertial decisionmaking can diminish consumer benefits of retail competition. Using household-level data ...
The Long-Run Effects of Disruptive Peers
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-08-09)
There's a great deal of research on how classmates can affect test scores and discipline in school, but what about later in life? In Working Paper 1605, the authors look at the long-term impact of childhood peers, particularly ...
The Carrot and the Stick of Medicaid Expansion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-05-01)