Publication: National Bureau of Economic Research

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and Consequences

NBER Working Paper No. 19052NBER Program(s): DAE DEV EFG IFM ITI POL PRThis chapter discusses different approaches pursued to explore three broad questions related to technology diffusion: what general patterns characterize the diffusion of technologies, ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. 19048NBER Program(s): LSIn response to the Great Recession, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to an unprecedented 99 weeks in many U.S. states in the 2009-2012 period. We use matched monthly data ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Foreign Trade and Investment: Firm-Level Perspectives

NBER Working Paper No. 19057NBER Program(s): ITIThis Economica Coase Lecture reviews research that has revolutionized the field of international trade and foreign direct investment. It explains the motivation behind the development of new analytical frameworks, ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

NBER Working Paper No. 19058NBER Program(s): EFG HC HEMany national accounts of economic output and prosperity, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or net domestic product (NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Product and labor market imperfections and scale economies: Micro-evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands

NBER Working Paper No. 19059NBER Program(s): PRAllowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on two extensions of Hall's econometric framework for estimating ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Entities: Netherlands, Japan, France
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Loan officer Incentives and the Limits of Hard Information

NBER Working Paper No. 19051NBER Program(s): CFPoor loan quality is often attributed to loan officers exercising poor judgment. A potential solution is to base loans on hard information alone. However, we find other consequences of bypassing discretion ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Post-recession US Employment through the Lens of a Non-linear Okun’s law

Post-recession US Employment through the Lens of a Non-linear Okun's lawMenzie D. Chinn, Laurent Ferrara, Valérie MignonNBER Program(s): EFGThis paper aims at investigating the relationship between employment and GDP in the United States. We disentangle ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Validation

NBER Working Paper No. 19054NBER Program(s): HC LSA common heuristic for evaluating the problem of omitted variable bias in economics is to look at coeffcient movements after inclusion of controls. The theory under which this is informative is one in ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy

NBER Working Paper No. 19055NBER Program(s): EEEWe estimate the sensitivity of scrap decisions to changes in used car values – the "scrap elasticity" – and show how it influences used car fleets under policies aimed at reducing gasoline use. Large scrap ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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Do Depositors Monitor Banks?

NBER Working Paper No. 19050NBER Program(s): CF MEWe use unique micro-level depositor data for a bank that faced a run due to a shock to its solvency to study whether depositors monitor banks. Specifically, we examine depositor withdrawal patterns in ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
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High School Graduation in the Context of Changing Elementary and Secondary Education Policy and Income Inequality: The Last Half Century

NBER Working Paper No. 19049NBER Program(s): EDGoldin and Katz (2008) document the key role that the educational attainment of native-born workers in the U.S. has played in determining changing returns to skill and income distribution in the twentieth ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Putting the âSystemâ in the International Monetary System

Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary SystemMichael D. Bordo, Angela RedishNBER Program(s): DAE METhe international gold standard of the late nineteenth century has been described as a system of ‘spontaneous order’, capturing the idea that ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]

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Product and labor market imperfections and scal... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Foreign Trade and Investment: Firm-Level Perspe... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Technology Diffusion: Measurement, Causes and C... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Healt... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stabilit... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Vehicle Scrappage and Gasoline Policy [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Loan officer Incentives and the Limits of Hard ... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Do Depositors Monitor Banks? [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unem... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
High School Graduation in the Context of Changi... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Post-recession US Employment through the Lens o... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
Using Performance Incentives to Improve Medical... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 21 2013]
A Microeconomic Framework for Evaluating Energy... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]
Two-Armed Restless Bandits with Imperfect Infor... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]
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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000 [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]
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Nonlinear Programming Method for Dynamic Progra... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]
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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance: Theo... [Published National Bureau of Economic Research - May 13 2013]
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