Comment on "Monetary policy news in the US: Effects on emerging market capital flows"
Conference presentations and academic publishing
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. This study contributes to the existing literature on the impact of conference presentations on career progression by quantifying the predictive power of conferences for publication success. Examining outcomes for more than 4000 papers presented at three leading economics conferences over the 2006–2012 period, we find a positive...
Adjustment of Patient Experience Surveys for How People Respond.
BackgroundPatient surveys are the primary tool to measure patient experiences of care. Caution must be taken when analyzing these data, as responses can be influenced by factors that do not reflect the quality of care received.ObjectivesTo provide a practical overview of adjusting patient experience survey results to address bias related to patient...
Testing for a trend with persistent errors
The distribution of U.S. electric utility revenue decoupling rate impacts from 2005 to 2017
© 2020 Electric utilities have historically relied on volumetric energy rates. Reductions in sales can have an adverse effect on a utility's ability to sufficiently recover its costs. Decoupling mechanisms, when properly designed, diminish the link between revenues and sales. Analysis of annual rate adjustments from decoupling mechanisms indicate t...
The Effect of Tax Avoidance Crackdown on Corporate Innovation
To constrain the use of intangible assets in tax-motivated state income shifting and thus crack down on corporate tax avoidance, many U.S. state governments adopted addback statutes. Addback statutes reduce the state tax benefits that firms can gain from creating intangible assets such as patents. Using a large sample of U.S. public firms, we exami...
Predicting mid-life capital formation with pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation...
How well do pre-school delay of gratification and life-course measures of self-regulation predict mid-life capital formation? We surveyed 113 participants of the 1967-1973 Bing pre-school studies on delay of gratification when they were in their late 40's. They reported 11 mid-life capital formation outcomes, including net worth, permanent income, ...
Reply to Whitehead
The effects of the COVID pandemic on the federal budget outlook.
We examine the impact of COVID-19 on the federal budget outlook. We find substantial but temporary effects on spending and revenues, with more moderate but permanent effects on the long-term projections. We project that the debt-to-GDP ratio, currently 98%, will rise to 190% in 2050 under current law, compared to a CBO pre-COVID projection of 180%....
Fairness considerations in joint venture formation
