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  • Federal sponsorship of university research 
    Fulmer, Vincent A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963)
  • Growing Pains in financial development : institutional weakness and investment efficiency 
    Green, Daniel (Daniel Weiss); Liu, Ernest Siyuan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    There is little evidence that the expansion of microfinance has reduced poverty, but is instead increasingly associated with problematic multiple borrowing at high interest rates and high levels of debt and default. We ...
  • The incidence of U.S. agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates 
    Kirwan, Barrett E., 1974- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    This paper identifies the effect of agricultural subsidies on farmland rental rates in the United States. Rental agreements are primarily between farmers and non-farmer landlords, but no evidence exists concerning the ...
  • Innovation incentives and competition in the hard disk drive industry 
    Wu, Xiaohua Sherry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    Firms in the hard disk drive industry are continually engaging in R & D and improving the quality of their products. We explore various determinants of the product innovation incentives for firms concerned with both their ...
  • Labor risk sharing 
    Manuelli, Lucas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    In this paper we aim to test the extent of labor risk sharing exists in thai village economies. Specifically we test the null hypothesis of full risk sharing at the village level. We outline a simple planner's problem that ...
  • On testing the Tradeoff Theory of capital structure with real options 
    Shore, William T., S.M. (William Thomas). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    We explain often anomalous results of capital structure tests by infusing tradeoff theory with real options. Of course one can explain almost everything using a soft qualitative theory. This paper's addition is to use a ...
  • Optimal intertemporal decisions in imperfect capital markets 
    Cardenas, Ruben Ojeda (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Optimal intertemporal investment solution paths are derived for both, firms operating in perfect financial markets and those facing credit constraints, due to imperfect capital markets. However, as in these markets, saving ...
  • Panel data models with nonadditive unobserved heterogeneity : estimation and inference 
    Lee, Joonhwan; Fernández-Val, Iván (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    This paper considers fixed effects estimation and inference in linear and nonlinear panel data models with random coefficients and endogenous regressors. The quantities of interest - means, variances, and other moments of ...
  • Predicting minimum savings in Thai villages 
    Sripakdeevong, Parit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
    Amador Werning Angeletos (2006) characterize the conditions under which optimal saving/ consumption decision are determined by a minimum savings policy. I test this model empirically against data from the Townsend Thai ...
  • Private information and price regulation In the US credit card market 
    Nelson, Scott Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Lenders typically learn new information about their borrowers over time but can be restricted from repricing debt in response to this information. I study a leading example of such re-pricing restrictions, the 2009 Credit ...
  • The spatial clustering of occupations 
    Swift, Henry Spencer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    Workers in similar occupations cluster, much like firms in similar industries. This may be due to firm clustering, but I propose a supply-side mechanism that may also provide an explanation. When workers face a risk of ...
  • Supply response to consumer inertia : strategic pricing in Medicare Part D 
    Wu, Yufei, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
    A growing literature has documented evidence that consumers in health insurance markets are inertial, or behave as though they face substantial switching costs in choosing a health insurance plan. I investigate whether the ...
  • Variation in marginal tax rates around retirement and the return to saving in tax-favored accounts 
    Bishop, Tonja Bowen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Economists have generally assumed that to the extent possible, retirement savings should be done in a tax-deferred account. However, the advent of Roth-style tax-favored accounts and concerns about the tax implications of ...
  • Yardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and media markets 
    Johnson, Lynn Christine, 1976- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
    I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors ...
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