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Medium Term Business Cycles in Developing Countries

Comin, Diego; Loayza, Norman; Pasha, Farooq; Servén, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Business cycle fluctuations in developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous...

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Employment Protection, International Specialization, and Innovation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper develops a model to analyse the implications of firing costs on incentives for R&D and international specialization. The key idea is that, to avoid paying firing costs, the country with a rigid labour market will tend to produce relatively secure goods, at late stages in their product...

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Learning by Doing and Multiproduction Effects Over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this study we derive a structural econometric model of learning by doing with multiproduct competition from a dynamic oligopoly game. We show the importance to account for multiproduction effects through product differentiation when measuring learning by doing. Using quarterly firm-level data...

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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions Be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries

Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

exercise in fiscal rectitude of the 1980s and focusing on its two most extreme cases, Denmark and Ireland. We find that at …

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The Exchange Rate - A Shock-Absorber or Source of Shocks? A Study of Four Open Economies

Artis, Michael J; Ehrmann, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The paper provides SVAR estimates for four open economies: the UK, Canada, Sweden and Denmark, making explicit a … another: monetary union appears easy to recommend for Sweden and Denmark, much less so for Canada and the UK. …

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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …

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Effects of Ownership and Financial Status on Corporate Environmental Performance

Earnhart, Dietrich; Lizal, Lubomir - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership effects and this performance link using an unbalanced...

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Pollution and Growth: What Do We Know?

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …

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Acid Rain

Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

current agreement on uniform reductions from 1980 levels is inefficient and costly. The evidence suggests that SO2 pollution …

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Are the Costs of Cleaning Up Eastern Europe Exaggerated? Economic Reform and the Environment

Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert …

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