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The Corporate Financing Effects of the Temporary Tax Deduction for Repatriated Dividends
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Identification of Response of Stock Returns to Monetary Policy Actions Using Market-Based Measures of Monetary Policy Shocks
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
How Do Peers Influence BMI? Evidence from Randomly Assigned Classrooms in South Korea
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 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 ...
The Probability Premium Approach to Comparative Risk Aversion
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-05-01)
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 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 ...