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Dead Poet's Property - How Does Copyright Influence Price?

Li, Xing - 2015

dead authors - to examine the influence of longer copyrights on price. Difference-in-differences analyses, which compare … changes in the price of books by dead and living authors, indicate a substantial increase in price in response to an extension … indicate no differential increase. Historical evidence suggests that longer copyrights increase price by improving publishers …

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Privatizing social security

Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1998

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Who Are the Hand-to-Mouth?

Aguiar, Mark A. - 2020

Many households hold little wealth, especially liquid wealth. In precautionary savings models, absent preference heterogeneity, these households should display not only higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs), but also lower average propensities to consume (APCs) and higher future...

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Gender Differences in COVID-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)

Carpenter, Christopher - 2010

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly …

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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom

Wilson, Karen - 2005

Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is used to balance and benchmark the …; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom …

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Household Debt Overhang Did Hardly Cause a Larger Spending Fall during the Financial Crisis in Australia

Svensson, Lars E. O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The "debt-overhang hypothesis" - that households cut back more on their spending in a crisis when they have higher levels of outstanding mortgage debt (Dynan, 2012) - seems to be taken for granted by macroprudential authorities in several countries in their policy decisions, as well as by the...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

Taylor, Alan M. - 1996

Although the empirical growth literature has yielded many findings on postwar convergence patterns, it has had little to say about the determinants of convergence in earlier epochs. This paper investigates convergence for group of seven countries during the period 1870-1914, the last great phase...

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Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer

Taylor, Alan M. - 1991

countries of Canada, Australia, the USA, Argentina and the rest of Latin America. The resource abundant New World was endowed …

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