Category: Economics & Public Policy

  • Dynamic rank aggregation can be updated efficiently

    This research indicates that dynamic rank aggregation can be maintained efficiently with both practical performance and a provable approximation guarantee.

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  • PFOS disrupts cholinergic neuron survival through oxidative and signaling changes

    This research indicates that PFOS exposure can trigger oxidative stress, disrupt prostaglandin E2 and NGF/TrkA/P75NTR signaling, and lead to basal forebrain cholinergic neuron cell death, with partial protection from T3 and other treatments.

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  • Unified framework for ordered measures in optimization

    This research indicates that ordered measures can be computed and integrated within a unified optimization framework, with compact mixed-integer formulations for several classes of measures.

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  • ESG ratings show stronger financial links in hotel REITs

    This research indicates that hotel-focused real estate investment trusts benefit more financially from environmental, social, and governance improvements than REITs in other sectors.

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  • Macro shocks widen the Black-white unemployment gap

    This research indicates that six types of macroeconomic shocks have larger effects on Black unemployment than on white unemployment, and contractionary shocks widen the Black-white unemployment rate gap.

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  • Firm market power and worker bargaining power shape wages

    This research indicates that firm market power and worker bargaining power shape wages and welfare, and that a model with vertically differentiated goods and profit sharing can explain patterns in French data.

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  • Hungary’s earnings inequality changed little from 2004 to 2021

    This research indicates that overall earnings dispersion in Hungary changed little over two decades, while some top, lower-tail, and recession-related differences remained by gender and age.

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  • REER changes did not significantly affect EU trade balances

    This research indicates that real effective exchange rate movements did not have a statistically significant effect on trade balances in 20 EU countries, while domestic absorption had strong negative effects.

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  • Unfunded fiscal shocks were not Japan’s main inflation driver

    This research indicates that unfunded fiscal shocks were not the main drivers of inflation in Japan, while real demand and supply shocks and accommodative monetary policy played larger roles.

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  • Three mechanisms can repair trust in regulation

    This research indicates that trust in regulation may be repaired after severe breakdowns through public investigations, substantive and institutional reforms, and greater transparency.

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