12 papers
Public Signals, Concealed Choices: Dynamic Measurement without Behavioral Identification
Rok Spruk
Members of collective institutions may leave public traces while their individual choices remain concealed. This paper separates a corpus-conditional public position from the behav…
Reputation, Exposure, and Exit: Organizational Turnover after #MeToo
Roy Baharad, Asaf Eckstein, Gideon Parchomovsky +1
We study how economy-wide reputational shocks reshape corporate governance by examining board and executive turnover following the MeToo movement. We conceptualize the October 2017…
Long-Term Health and Human Capital Effects of Universal Health Care and Mass Literacy: Evidence from Cuba
Giovanni Mellace, Rok Spruk
We estimate long-run effects of Cuba's 1961 National Health Service and contemporaneous National Literacy Campaign using synthetic-control methods on newly assembled series for 21…
Statehood Without Capacity
Rok Spruk
This paper develops a political-economy theory of statehood without capacity. I argue that under specific institutional and geopolitical conditions, a polity can become trapped in…
Confrontation with the West and Long-Run Economic and Institutional Outcomes: Evidence from Iran
Rok Spruk
This paper studies the long-run economic and institutional consequences of Iran's confrontation with the West, treating the 2006-2007 strategic shift as the onset of a sustained co…
Pricing Catastrophe: How Extreme Political Shocks Reprice Sovereign Risk, Beliefs, and Growth Expectations
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
Extreme political shocks may reshape economies not only through contemporaneous disruption but by altering beliefs about the distribution of future states. We study how such belief…