Killer acquisitions

C Cunningham, F Ederer, S Ma - Journal of political …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper argues that incumbent firms may acquire innovative targets solely to discontinue
the target's innovation projects and preempt future competition. We call such acquisitions …

Regulation by shaming: Deterrence effects of publicizing violations of workplace safety and health laws

MS Johnson - American economic review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
Publicizing firms' socially undesirable actions may enhance firms' incentives to avoid such
actions. In 2009, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) began issuing …

International currencies and capital allocation

M Maggiori, B Neiman… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We establish currency as an important factor shaping global portfolios. Using a new security-
level data set, we demonstrate that investor holdings are biased toward their own currencies …

Input linkages and the transmission of shocks: Firm-level evidence from the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake

CE Boehm, A Flaaen… - Review of Economics and …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
Using novel firm-level microdata and leveraging a natural experiment, this paper provides
causal evidence for the role of trade and multinational firms in the cross-country …

Concentration in product markets

CL Benkard, A Yurukoglu, AL Zhang - 2021 - nber.org
This paper uses new data to reexamine trends in concentration in US markets from 1994 to
2019. The paper's main contribution is to construct concentration measures that reflect …

Estimating surveillance bias in child maltreatment reporting during home visiting program involvement

ML Holland, D Esserman, RM Taylor… - Child …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
It is unclear if surveillance bias (increased reports to Child Protective Services [CPS] related
to program involvement) has a substantial impact on evaluation of home visiting (HV) …

Introducing CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer): A program for reference publication year spectroscopy with cited references standardization

A Thor, W Marx, L Leydesdorff, L Bornmann - Journal of informetrics, 2016 - Elsevier
We introduce a new tool–the CitedReferencesExplorer (CRExplorer, www. crexplorer. net)–
which can be used to disambiguate and analyze the cited references (CRs) of a publication …

Multinationals, offshoring, and the decline of US manufacturing

CE Boehm, A Flaaen, N Pandalai-Nayar - Journal of International …, 2020 - Elsevier
We provide new facts about the role of multinationals in the decline in US manufacturing
employment between 1993 and 2011, using a novel microdata panel with firm-level …

“There is No Planet B

E Benincasa, G Kabas, S Ongena - There are Countries B to Z" …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
We document that banks react to domestic climate policy stringency by increasing cross-
border lending. We use loan fixed effects to control for loan demand and an instrumental …

The long-run effects of recessions on education and income

BA Stuart - American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022 - aeaweb.org
This paper examines the long-run effects of the 1980–1982 recession on education and
income. Using confidential census data, I estimate difference-in-difference regressions that …