CEP Discussion Paper
The Contribution of Immigration to Local Labor Market Adjustment
Michael Amior
February 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1678:
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Tags: immigration; geographical mobility; local labor markets; employment

CEP Report
Seizing sustainable growth opportunities from zero emission passenger vehicles in the UK
Ralf Martin, Sam Unsworth, Anna Valero and Dennis Verhoeven February 2020
Paper No' CEPSP37:
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Tags: sustainable growth; climate change; clean growth; industrial strategy; industrial policy

CEP Industrial Strategy
Has the Financial Crisis Undermined Credit Reallocation in the United Kingdom?
Daniel Mead and Isabelle Roland
February 2020
Paper No' CEPIS08:
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Tags: credit reallocation; productivity; credit shock; great recession

CEP Discussion Paper
The Rise of Agribusiness and the Distributional Consequences of Policies on Intermediated Trade
Swati Dhingra and Silvana Tenreyro February 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1677:
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Tags: agribusiness; market power; intermediated trade; middlemen; oligopsony

CEP Discussion Paper
Comparing Conventional and Machine-Learning Approaches to Risk Assessment in Domestic Abuse Cases
Jeffrey Grogger, Ria Ivandic and Tom Kirchmaier February 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1676:
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Tags: domestic abuse; risk assessment; machine learning

CEP Discussion Paper
Who's Paying for the U.S. Tariffs? A Longer-Term Perspective
Mary Amiti, Stephen J. Redding and David E. Weinstein
February 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1675:
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Tags: tariffs; trade war; passthrough

CEP Discussion Paper
Import Competition, Heterogeneous Preferences of Managers and Productivity
Cheng Chen and Claudia Steinwender
January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1674:
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Tags: import competition; productivity; family firms; managers

CEP Discussion Paper
Intellectual Property and the Organization of the Global Value Chain
Stefano Bolatto, Alireza Naghavi, Gianmarco Ottaviano and Katja Zajc Kejzar January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1673:
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Tags: sequential production; intellectual property; intangible assets; appropriability; stage complementarity; upstreamness; firm organization; outsourcing; vertical integration

CEP Discussion Paper
The Aggregate Consequences of Default Risk: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Timothy Besley, Isabelle Roland and John Van Reenen
January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1672:
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Tags: productivity; default risk; credit frictions; misallocation

CEP Discussion Paper
A Local Community Course That Raises Mental Wellbeing and Pro-Sociality
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Daisy Fancourt, Christian Krekel and Richard Layard January 2020
Paper No' CEPDP1671:
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Tags: wellbeing; pro-social behaviour; communities; intervention; rct

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