Webinar Series

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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Mar 2023

Indirect Effects of Access to Finance

Jing CAI, Adam SZEIDL
We created experimental variation across local markets in China in the share of firms having access to a new loan product, to measure the direct and indirect effects of access to finance. We find that:(1) Access to finance had a large positive direct effect on the performance of treated firms. (2) A...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Feb 2023

Judicial Independence, Local Protectionism, and Economic Integration: Evidence from China

Yi LU, Shaoda WANG, Wenwei PENG
We show that judicial independence can reduce local protectionism and foster crossregional economic integration. We exploit a judicial independence reform in China with staggered roll-out since 2014. The reform removed local governments’ control over local courts’ financial and personnel decisio...
Keywords: judicial independence, local protectionism, economic integration
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Jan 2023

The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps

Huan TANG, Bo BIAN, Xinchen MA
This paper investigates how consumers and investors react to the standardized disclosure of data privacy practices. Since December 2020, Apple has required all apps to disclose their data collection practices by filling out privacy “nutrition” labels that are standardized and easy to read. We we...
Keywords: Privacy labels, App Tracking Transparency policy, Data protection, Mobile apps, Product markets, Eve
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

Time Savings When Working from Home

Steven J. DAVIS, Nicholas A. BLOOM, Jose Maria BARRERO, Cevat Giray AKSOY, Mathias DOLLS, Pablo ZARATE
We quantify the commute time savings associated with work from home, drawing on data for 27 countries. The average daily time savings when working from home is 72 minutes in our sample. We estimate that work from home saved about two hours per week per worker in 2021 and 2022, and that it will save ...
Keywords: Work from home, commute times, allocation of time savings
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Dec 2022

Crowdsourcing Peer Information to Change Spending Behavior

Michael WEBER, Francesco DACUNTO, Alberto G. ROSSI
We isolate and quantify the information channel of peer effects using a unique consumption setting that by construction excludes any scope for common shocks or social pressure—a transaction-level panel dataset of spending paired with crowdsourced information about the spending of anonymous “peer...
Keywords: Social Learning, Beliefs and Expectations, FinTech, Robo-advising, Social Finance, Information Economics, Household Finance
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