infonet-economy

Schaub, Sergei

Bounie, David; Dubus, Antoine; Waelbroeck, Patrick

Combet, Benita; Oesch, Daniel (2020). The social origin gap in university completion among youth with comparable school abilities in Switzerland. TREE Working Paper Series 4, Bern.

In this paper, we argue that the effect of monetary and fiscal policies on the exchange rate depends on the fiscal regime. A contractionary monetary (expansionary fiscal) shock can lead to a depreciation, rather than an appreciation, of the domestic currency if debt is not backed by future fiscal surpluses. We look at daily movements of the Brazilian real around policy announcements and…

Ollier, Joseph; Nißen, Marcia Katharina; von Wangenheim, Florian

Kumar, Nilkanth; Nirmal Kumar, Raut; Srinivasan, Suchita

Howe, Lauren C; Menges, Jochen I (2021). Remote work mindsets predict emotions and productivity in home office: A longitudinal study of knowledge workers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Human - Computer Interaction:Epub ahead of print.

We combine real estate data with various types of crime data using time and geospatial information to detect discontinuities in transaction densities and pricing around crime events in Rochester, NY. Discontinuities in transaction densities invalidate causal inference for price responses implied by the regression discontinuity design (RDD) approach. However, these discontinuities…

Petkov, Ivalin; Knoeri, Christof; Hoffmann, Volker H.