and the constant elasticity of substitution (CES)) as limit cases. This integrative approach incorporates both localized …

views have been based on interwar data. Recent research on British unemployment in the interwar period has proven expecially … controversial. This paper describes a new microdata set which can be used to study the operation of the British labour market and … the incidence of interwar unemployment. The data set is a sample of households drawn from the records of the New Survey of …

microdata. We look at both economic and statistical criteria in assessing various models, paying particular attention to the … flexibility of the economic model and the stochastic specification of unobservable factors. Using these criteria, a model is … selected from a sample of United Kingdom Family Expenditure Survey data. …

market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty …

Heritage Foundation’s index of economic freedom. …

trade. The panel data set used includes bilateral observations for five years spanning 1970 through 1990 for 186 countries …. In this data set, there are over one hundred pairings and three hundred observations, in which both countries use the …

This paper develops a procedure to rank-order countries and commodities using disaggregated US imports data. It finds … disaggregated trade data turn out to be highly correlated with macroeconomic phenomena such as national productivity levels and …

Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World … reconcile these positions by examining the economic impact of hosting mega-events like the Olympics; we focus on trade. Using a …

We use a panel of annual data for over one hundred developing countries from 1971–92 to characterize currency crashes …