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Coalition management under divided/unified government
2016If the opposite of pro is con, then the opposite of progress must be the Congress,' says a popular joke about the divided government in the US two-party presidential regime. Divided government occurs when different political ... -
Techno-government networks: actor-network theory in electronic government research
2016The Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is a theoretical approach for the study of controversies associated with scientific discoveries and technological innovations through the networks of actors involved in such actions. This ... -
Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investigation into voting behavior
2016This article reports results from an economic experiment that investigates to what extent voters punish corruption and waste in elections. While both are responsible for a loss of welfare for voters, they are not necessarily ... -
The impact of government equity investment on internationalization: the case of Brazil
2016We examine the impact of government equity ownership on the degree of internationalization of emerging market firms. Our analysis of 173 Brazilian publicly traded firms from 2002 to 2011 shows that the higher the equity ... -
De quem é a riqueza que está ali? Discutindo responsabilidades na exploração de minério no Sul Global
2016Este caso para ensino descreve uma situação de conflito envolvendo uma mineradora, uma organização da sociedade civil e uma comunidade afetada pelas operações da empresa. Embora o foco esteja no gerente da multinacional ... -
Implied volatility smirk in Lévy markets
2016We introduce skewed L evy models, characterized by a symmetric jump measure multiplied by dumping exponential factor. This models exhibit a clear implied volatility pattern, where the dumping parameter controls the skew ... -
Inference in differences-in-differences with few treated groups and heteroskedasticity
2016We show that the usual inference methods used in Di fferences-in-Di fferences (DID) might not perform well with few treated groups and heteroskedastic errors. One important example is when there is variation in the number ... -
Sorting in higher education in Brazil
2016This paper investigates students sorting in higher education in Brazil based on three merged databases: (i) the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD/IBGE), (ii) the National Exam of Student Performance (ENADE), and (iii) ... -
Substitution effects in private debt: evidence from SMEs
2016The external finance of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is limited to private debt such as bank credit and trade credit. SMEs generally prefer bank credit over trade credit because the former tends to be less ... -
Back to the future of alternative banks and patient capital
2016This paper explores how savings banks, cooperative banks, and development banks were founded as social reactions of self-defense in the 19th century, accumulated patient capital but suffered political capture in the early ... -
Option pricing under multiscale stochastic volatility
2015The stochastic volatility model proposed by Fouque, Papanicolaou, and Sircar (2000) explores a fast and a slow time-scale fluctuation of the volatility process to end up with a parsimonious way of capturing the volatility ... -
International competition and labor market adjustment
2016How does welfare change in the short- and long-run in high wage countries when integrating with low wage economies like China? Even if consumers benefit from lower prices, there can be significant welfare losses from ... -
Bailout policies, bank competition and bank risk-taking in crisis periods
2016This paper analyzes the impact of government bailout policies on the risk of the banking sector in OECD countries between 2005 and 2013. We use the 2007-2008 financial crisis as an exogenous source of change in bailout ...
