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Replication Data for: The Power and Peril of Nudging Non-Compliant Firms: A Field Experiment on Tax Compliance
No full textWe explore whether nudges increase payment rate of tax debts by non-compliant firms. Through a partnership with the Department of Revenue of the State of Espírito Santo (Brazil), we include nudges related to reciprocity, social norms, and salience in letters sent to non-tax-compliant firms. Results show that reciprocity and salience have no effect on the likelihood of payment. However, the two social norms nudges have important economic effects. A majority norm message increases the chance payment in up to 5.8 percentage points (p.p.), a 35% increase over the base rate of the no message control. Interestingly, a minority norm message leads to a sharp decrease of up to 7.9 p.p. in the chance of payment. We add novel evidence to two important strands of the literature which are underexplored due to lack of data: firm tax compliance and firm behavior to nudges. Our results highlight the importance of understanding the context in which the taxpayers operate to design effective strategies to increase tax compliance
Replication Data for: More Human than Human: Measuring ChatGPT Political Bias
No full textA standing issue is how to measure bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. We devise a novel method of sampling, bootstrapping, and impersonation that addresses concerns about the inherent randomness of LLMs and test if it can capture political bias in ChatGPT. Our results indicate that, by default, ChatGPT is aligned with Democrats in the US. Placebo tests indicate that our results are due to bias, not noise or spurious relationships. Robustness tests show that our findings are valid also for Brazil and the UK, different professions, and different numerical scales and questionnaires
Replication Data for: Dirty deeds: how corruption affects entrepreneurship in developed and emerging economies
No full textData and code for replication. Data sourced from GEM, the World Bank, and the Fraser Institut
Replication Data for: COVID-19 Data Reliability and Institutions
No full textIn this paper, we investigate the role played by institutions in providing useful and reliable information during the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the conformity to Benford's Law as a measure of reliability of COVID-19 number of cases at the country level. Then, we test the impact of strong institutions on reliability using OLS and IV regressions. Our results indicate that a strong institutional environment increases data reliability of COVID-19 confirmed cases
Replication Data for: The influence of culture on entrepreneurship: Differences between the perceptions of Portuguese and Spanish cultures
No full textSeveral sources including GEM, Fraser Institute, Transparency International, UN, and World Ban
Replication Data for: A comment on "Effects of Banking Competition"
No full textModified code implementing robustness tests for Carlson, M., Correia, S., & Luck, S. (2022). The Effects of Banking Competition on Growth and Financial Stability: Evidence from the National Banking Era. Journal of Political Economy, 130(2), 462–520. https://doi.org/10.1086/71745
A comment on 'effects of banking competition'
No full textCarlson et al (2022) study the effects of banking competition on economic growth and financial stability in the US National Banking Era. Using a discontinuity in bank capital requirements, they find that lower entry barriers increase lending and growth, but also risk-taking. We reproduce and verify the original results, and perform various robustness checks. We show that the results are mostly stable, but sometimes sensitive to the sample selection procedure and the included control variables
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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