Daniel Berkowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 3949047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Berkowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Berkowitz |
| SIGNATURE | BERKOWITZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effect of an Emergency Savings Program on Employee Savings and Work Performance: A Two-Year Field Intervention
Financial precarity-the persistent worry about one's financial situation-can have detrimental effects on individuals' cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. It can also interfere with work performance. The authors report on a two-year field intervention aimed at addressing financial precarity through the implementation of an employee emergency savings program. The program was employer-sponsored but required voluntary employee participation…
How bureaucratic leadership shapes policy outcomes: Partisan politics and affluent citizens’ incomes in the American states
We maintain that political institutions’ policy objectives are best met under conditions when they are unified, and also when their administrative leadership is effective. We apply this argument to the understanding of how unified Democratic and Republican governments in the American states have influenced the incomes of affluent citizens. We find that affluent income gains occur under unified Republican state governments when compensation to exe…
Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprises
Following the enactment of reforms in the mid-1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) became more profitable. Using theoretical insights from Azmat, Manning, and Van Reenen (2012) and Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014) and econometric methods in De Loecker andWarzynski (2012), this paper finds that SOE restructuring was nevertheless limited. This is because SOE profitability gains in part reflect that they were under less political pressure to…
Bank privatization, finance, and growth
This paper examines whether privatizing state-owned banks improves finance and economic growth. To do so, we exploit regional banking variations in Russia induced by the idiosyncratic creation of “specialized banks” in the last years of the Soviet Union (1988–91) that were subsequently privatized. Starting in 1999 private banks including surviving spetsbanks emerged as an important source of external finance for private firms and households. We d…
Law, trade, and development
Trade, Law, and Product Complexity
How does the quality of national institutions that enforce the rule of law influence international trade? Anderson and Marcouiller argue that bad institutions located in the importer's country deter international trade because they enable economic predators to steal and extort rents at the importer's border. We complement this research and show how good institutions located in the exporter's country enhance international trade, in particular, tra…
Economic development, legality, and the transplant effect
Regional integration: An empirical assessment of Russia
The Transplant Effect
Journal Article The Transplant Effect Get access Daniel Berkowitz, Daniel Berkowitz 1Daniel Berkowitz is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh and Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Katharina Pistor, Katharina Pistor 2Katharina Pistor is Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University Search for other works by thi…
What China Can Teach Russia
The Transplant Effect
Journal Article The Transplant Effect Get access Daniel Berkowitz, Daniel Berkowitz 1Daniel Berkowitz is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh and Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Katharina Pistor, Katharina Pistor 2Katharina Pistor is Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University Search for other works by thi…
Bank privatization, finance, and growth
This paper examines whether privatizing state-owned banks improves finance and economic growth. To do so, we exploit regional banking variations in Russia induced by the idiosyncratic creation of “specialized banks” in the last years of the Soviet Union (1988–91) that were subsequently privatized. Starting in 1999 private banks including surviving spetsbanks emerged as an important source of external finance for private firms and households. We d…
How bureaucratic leadership shapes policy outcomes: Partisan politics and affluent citizens’ incomes in the American states
We maintain that political institutions’ policy objectives are best met under conditions when they are unified, and also when their administrative leadership is effective. We apply this argument to the understanding of how unified Democratic and Republican governments in the American states have influenced the incomes of affluent citizens. We find that affluent income gains occur under unified Republican state governments when compensation to exe…
Regional integration: An empirical assessment of Russia
Law, trade, and development
What China Can Teach Russia
Economic development, legality, and the transplant effect
Regional integration: An empirical assessment of Russia
The Transplant Effect
Journal Article The Transplant Effect Get access Daniel Berkowitz, Daniel Berkowitz 1Daniel Berkowitz is Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh and Davidson Institute, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Katharina Pistor, Katharina Pistor 2Katharina Pistor is Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University Search for other works by thi…
Trade, Law, and Product Complexity
How does the quality of national institutions that enforce the rule of law influence international trade? Anderson and Marcouiller argue that bad institutions located in the importer's country deter international trade because they enable economic predators to steal and extort rents at the importer's border. We complement this research and show how good institutions located in the exporter's country enhance international trade, in particular, tra…
Law, trade, and development
Bank privatization, finance, and growth
This paper examines whether privatizing state-owned banks improves finance and economic growth. To do so, we exploit regional banking variations in Russia induced by the idiosyncratic creation of “specialized banks” in the last years of the Soviet Union (1988–91) that were subsequently privatized. Starting in 1999 private banks including surviving spetsbanks emerged as an important source of external finance for private firms and households. We d…
Recasting the Iron Rice Bowl: The Reform of China's State-Owned Enterprises
Following the enactment of reforms in the mid-1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) became more profitable. Using theoretical insights from Azmat, Manning, and Van Reenen (2012) and Karabarbounis and Neiman (2014) and econometric methods in De Loecker andWarzynski (2012), this paper finds that SOE restructuring was nevertheless limited. This is because SOE profitability gains in part reflect that they were under less political pressure to…
How bureaucratic leadership shapes policy outcomes: Partisan politics and affluent citizens’ incomes in the American states
We maintain that political institutions’ policy objectives are best met under conditions when they are unified, and also when their administrative leadership is effective. We apply this argument to the understanding of how unified Democratic and Republican governments in the American states have influenced the incomes of affluent citizens. We find that affluent income gains occur under unified Republican state governments when compensation to exe…
The Effect of an Emergency Savings Program on Employee Savings and Work Performance: A Two-Year Field Intervention
Financial precarity-the persistent worry about one's financial situation-can have detrimental effects on individuals' cognitive, emotional, and social functioning. It can also interfere with work performance. The authors report on a two-year field intervention aimed at addressing financial precarity through the implementation of an employee emergency savings program. The program was employer-sponsored but required voluntary employee participation…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Global trade and economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Corruption and Economic Development (3 works) · International economics (3 works) · International trade (3 works) · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems (3 works) · Market economy (3 works)