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Employing principal component analysis (PCA), we build novel economic uncertainty indices for Turkey. Economic/business uncertainty and sectoral uncertainty indices sensitively detect important econo...

This paper explores the effects of privatization and subsidization policies in a mixed oligopoly, consisting of one semipublic firm and multiple private firms, where partial privatization affects tec...

Using a panel of 42 countries over the period 2004–2018, we investigate the extent to which better bureaucratic performance influences innovation outcomes. We first find that a one-unit improvement i...

We analyse the policy feedback on the minimum wage introduction in Germany, which was the core promise of the Social Democrats in the 2013 elections. Overall, there is no positive policy effect on th...

Employing an unobserved components stochastic volatility model, we estimate the trend 5-year government bond rate in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Our...

Measurement is a key challenge in studying sexual harassment. People's understanding of harassment varies across cultural and legal contexts, and there are many factors contributing to under-reportin...

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