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Impoverished, but Numerate? Early Numeracy in East Asia (1550–1800) and its Impact on 20th and 21st Century Economic Growth
Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083906
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The Strategic Determinants of U.S. Human Rights Reporting: Evidence from the Cold War
Qian, Nancy; Yanagizawa-Drott, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper uses a country-level panel dataset to test the hypothesis that the United States biases its human rights reports of countries based on the latters’ strategic value. We use the difference between the U.S. State Department’s and Amnesty International’s reports as a measure of U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789167
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Japan And The Great Divergence, 725-1874
Bassino, Jean-Pascal; Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
. However, Japan started at a lower level than Britain and grew more slowly until the Meiji Restoration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272718
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A Peek Inside The Black Box: The Monetary Transmission Mechanism In Japan
Bayoumi, Tamim; Morsink, James - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper uses vector autoregressions to examine the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan. The empirical results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666763
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Should We be Afraid of Friedman's Rule?
Uhlig, Harald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Should one think of zero nominal interest rates as an undesirable liquidity trap or as the desirable Friedman rule? I use three different frameworks to discuss this issue. First, I restate Cole and Kocherlakota's (1998) analysis of Friedman's rule: short run increases in the money stock -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005788876
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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
. Results are presented for the United States, Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies … indices for Japan and Europe. If anything, real wages in Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the … sense that much of the increase in wage gap indices in Europe during 1968-70 and in Japan in 1973-74 can be interpreted as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789135
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Exchange Rate Protection and Exchange Rate Conflict
Bliss, Christopher; Joshi, Vijay R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
experiences of Germany and Japan during periods when their exchange rates have apparently been undervalued and the more general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791547
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The Great Inflation and Early Disinflation in Japan and Germany
Nelson, Edward - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper considers the Great Inflation of the 1970s in Japan and Germany. From 1975 onward these countries had low … Japan and Germany’s monetary authorities - for example, more willingness to accept temporary unemployment, or stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791626
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Earnings and Seniority in Japan. A Re-appraisal of the Existing Evidence and a Comparison with the UK
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
Standard estimates of earnings profiles ignore the fact that, with unobserved heterogeneity, cross-section evidence need not reflect the `true' relationship between earnings and tenure. In this paper we argue that the observation of the position filled by an employee in the firm hierarchy is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791889
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Trade in the Triad: How Easy is the Access to Large Markets?
Fontagne, Lionel; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
called the Triad: The United States, the EU and Japan. We focus on measuring possible asymmetries in market access between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504710