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in pro-European sentiments in the EU 15 countries. The 1992 Maastricht Treaty seems to have reduced the pro …
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("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before …
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We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of …
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In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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We use detailed data for Iceland to examine two often-neglected aspects of the "exchange rate pass-through" problem … price indexes in Iceland for 2003-2019, a period that includes Iceland's banking and currency crisis of 2008. We find that … the pass-through declined around the time Iceland reformed its "flexible inflation targeting," and that the coefficients …
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This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in …
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This study exploits the October 2008 economic crisis in Iceland to identify the effects of a macroeconomic downturn on …
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This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …
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