Browsing Discussion papers (FOR) by Author "Gavrilova, Evelina"

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    • A partner in crime : assortative matching and bias in the crime market 

      Gavrilova, Evelina (Discussion papers;25/14, Working paper, 2014-06)
      I identify a discriminatory bias in partnership formation within the property crime mar- ket in the United States. Theoretically, the prisoner's dilemma creates an incentive for a criminal to form a partnership with a ...

    • The Big Short (Interest): Closing the Loopholes in the Dividend-Withholding Tax 

      Casi, Elisa; Gavrilova, Evelina; Murphy, David; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;7/22, Working paper, 2022-02-22)
      We study the effect of stricter enforcement of the dividend-withholding tax (DWT). We focus on a 2016 Danish enforcement reform and compare Denmark to its Nordic neighbors. Throughout Nordic stock markets, shares on loan ...

    • Dynamic Causal Forests, with an Application to Payroll Tax Incidence in Norway 

      Gavrilova, Evelina; Langørgen, Audun; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;9/23, Working paper, 2023-06-29)
      This paper develops a machine-learning method that allows researchers to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects with panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) ...

    • How to Use One Instrument to Identify Two Elasticities 

      Gavrilova, Evelina; Zoutman, Floris T.; Hopland, Arnt O. (Discussion paper;2/17, Working paper, 2017-02-27)
      We show that an insight from taxation theory allows identification of both the supply and demand elasticities with only one instrument. Ramsey (1928) and subsequent models of taxation assume that a tax levied on the demand ...

    • Is Legal Pot Crippling Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations? The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on US Crime 

      Gavrilova, Evelina; Kamada, Takuma; Zoutman, Floris T. (Discussion paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-01-19)
      We examine the effect of medical marijuana laws (MML) on crime treating the introduc- tion of MML as a quasi-experiment and using three different data sources. First, using data from the Uniform Crime Reports, we find ...

    • Stairway to (Secrecy) Heaven: Market Attitudes towards Secrecy Shopping 

      Gavrilova, Evelina; Polakova, Aija (Discussion paper;19/18, Working paper, 2018-12-18)
      We study asset price reactions to news on firms' decisions to acquire affiliates located in known secrecy havens. Our sample consists of data on the S&P 500 companies in the period 2007 to 2014. We find that acquisitions ...