SIER Working Paper Series

142 Regression Discontinuity Design With Potentially Many Covariates

Author : Myung Hwan Seo, Yoichi Arai, Taisuke Otsu
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This paper studies the case of possibly high-dimensional covariates in the regression discontinuity ...

141 Negative Income Tax and Universal Basic Income in the Eyes of Aiyagari

Author : Yongsung Chang, Jong-Suk Han, Sun-Bin Kim
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We compare two redistribution programs - negative income tax (NIT) and universal basic income (UBI) ...

140-1 Contracting with Enemies?: Vertical FDI with Outsourcing Contracts

Author : JaeBin Ahn, Jee-Hyeong Park
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An exploration of Korean MNCs’ foreign affiliate-level data reveals that a significant portion of m...

140 Hybrid Vertical FDI

Author : JaeBin Ahn, Jee-Hyeong Park
Abstract :
An exploration of Korean MNCs’ foreign affiliate-level data reveals that a significant portion of m...

139 MIGRATION AND TRUST: EVIDENCE FROM WEST GERMANY AFTER UNIFICATION

Author : Seong Hee Kim and Byung-Yeon Kim
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This study uses the German socio-economic panel data to investigate the effects of mass migration of...

138 Economic Impact of Targeted Government Responses to COVID-19: Evidence from the First Large-Scale Cluster in Seoul

Author : Jinwook Shin, Seonghoom Kim, and Kanghyok Koh
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We estimate the economic impact of South Korea’s targeted responses to the first large-scale COVID-...

137 Testing Stochastic Dominance with Many Conditioning Variables

Author : Oliver Linton, Myung Hwan Seo and Yoon-Jae Whang
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We propose a test of the conditional stochastic dominance in the presence of growing numbers of cov...

136 Sparse HP Filter: Finding Kinks in the COVID-19 Contact Rate

Author : Sokbae Lee, Yuan Liao, Myung Hwan Seo, Youngki Shin
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In this paper,we estimate the time-varyingCOVID-19 contact rate of a Susceptible- Infected-Recovere...

135 Unequal Consequences of Covid 19 across Age and Income: Representative Evidence from Six Countries

Author : Michele Belot, Syngjoo Choi, Egon Tripodi, Eline van den Broek-Altenburg, Julian C. Jamison, Nicholas W. Papageorge
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Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and lei...

134 Institutions, Competitiveness and Cognitive Ability

Author : Syngjoo Choi, Byung-Yeon Kim, Jungmin Lee, Sokbae Lee
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We investigate whether growing up in a socialist country affects the development of competitiveness...