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作者：Choi, Jaerim; Greaney, Theresa M.
作者单位：University of Hawaii System
摘要：Do multinational enterprises (MNEs) transfer gender-equal employment practices across borders? Using firm-level data for Korea, a country with low gender equality, we find evidence that MNEs bring their home countries' gender norms in employment with them. Foreign-acquired firms report 2-12 percentage-points higher female shares of permanent main-task workers at firm headquarters compared with nonacquired firms and the differential increases with the level of gender equality in the MNEs' home ...
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作者：Rotberg, Shahar
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：How does housing-an important asset for many households-affect the design of optimal wealth taxes? I analyze the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of wealth taxation using a model with two forms of wealth: capital used by entrepreneurs to produce goods, and housing that provides shelter services. Without housing, taxing wealth instead of capital income would improve the capital allocation and raise welfare. With housing, taxing capital and housing equally would worsen the capital a...
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作者：Barbera, Salvador; Gerber, Anke
作者单位：Autonomous University of Barcelona; Barcelona School of Economics; University of Hamburg
摘要：We study two-stage collective decision-making procedures where in the first stage, part of the voters decide what issues will be put in the agenda and in the second stage, the whole set of voters decides on the positions to be adopted regarding the issues that are in the agenda. Using a protocol-free equilibrium concept, we show that essentially any set of issues can be obtained as an equilibrium agenda under two salient classes of voting procedures. Moreover, the chair may manipulate a sequen...
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作者：Maggi, Giovanni; Mrazova, Monika; Neary, J. Peter
作者单位：Yale University; Getulio Vargas Foundation; University of Geneva; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; University of Oxford
摘要：The implications of red-tape barriers (RTBs) under lobbying pressures differ markedly from those of traditional trade barriers. RTBs affect the extensive margin of trade and may respond in opposite ways to reductions in tariffs versus reductions in natural trade costs: The former induce a protectionist backlash that may reduce trade both at the intensive and extensive margin, whereas the latter may induce a reduction in RTBs magnifying the direct trade-increasing effects. Furthermore, if tarif...
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作者：Cho, Jin Seo; Phillips, Peter C. B.; Seo, Juwon
作者单位：Beijing Institute of Technology; Yonsei University; Yale University; University of Auckland; University of Southampton; Singapore Management University; National University of Singapore
摘要：We propose a framework for estimation of the conditional mean function in a parametric model with function space covariates. The approach employs a functional mean squared error objective criterion. Under regularity conditions, consistency and asymptotic normality are established. The analysis extends to situations where the asymptotic properties are influenced by estimation errors arising from the presence of nuisance parameters. Wald, Lagrange multiplier, and quasi-likelihood ratio statistic...
