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A unified repository for pre-processed climate data weighted by gridded economic activity
Marco Gortan, Lorenzo Testa, Giorgio Fagiolo +1
Although high-resolution gridded climate variables are provided by multiple sources, the need for country and region-specific climate data weighted by indicators of economic activi…
Dealing with Uncertainty: The Value of Reputation in the Absence of Legal Institutions
Nicolas Eschenbaum, Helge Liebert
This paper studies reputation in the online market for illegal drugs in which no legal institutions exist to alleviate uncertainty. Trade takes place on platforms that offer rating…
Active labour market policies for the long-term unemployed: New evidence from causal machine learning
Daniel Goller, Tamara Harrer, Michael Lechner +1
Active labor market programs are important instruments used by European employment agencies to help the unemployed find work. Investigating large administrative data on German long…
Does external medical review reduce disability insurance inflow?
Helge Liebert
This paper investigates the effects of introducing external medical review for disability insurance (DI) in a system relying on treating physician testimony for eligibility determi…
Sorting on the Used-Car Market After the Volkswagen Emission Scandal
Anthony Strittmatter, Michael Lechner
The disclosure of the VW emission manipulation scandal caused a quasi-experimental market shock to the observable environmental quality of VW diesel vehicles. To investigate the ma…
Expropriations, Property Confiscations and New Offshore Entities: Evidence from the Panama Papers
Ralph-Christopher Bayer, Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky +1
Using the Panama Papers, we show that the beginning of media reporting on expropriations and property confiscations in a country increases the probability that offshore entities ar…