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Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
Mian, Atif R. - 2015
unemployment, and negative growth forecasting errors in a panel of 30 countries from 1960 to 2012. Consistent with the "credit …
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A Final Report Card on the States' Response to COVID-19
Kerpen, Phil; Moore, Stephen; Mulligan, Casey B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Almost exactly two years ago COVID-19 spread to the United States. Following the federalism model, the 50 states and their governors and legislators made many of their own pandemic policy choices to mitigate the damage from the virus. States learned from one another over time about what policies...
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Has Creative Destruction Become More Destructive?
Komlos, John - 2014
Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction as the engine of capitalist development is well-known. However, that the destructive part of creative destruction is a social cost and therefore biases our estimate of the impact of the innovation on NNP and on welfare is hardly acknowledged, with the...
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The Recovery From The Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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How Credit Constraints Impact Job Finding Rates, Sorting & Aggregate Output
Herkenhoff, Kyle - 2016
We empirically and theoretically examine how consumer credit access affects displaced workers. Empirically, we link administrative employment histories to credit reports. We show that an increase in credit limits worth 10% of prior annual earnings allows individuals to take .15 to 3 weeks longer...
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Inflation and Activity – Two Explorations and their Monetary Policy Implications
Blanchard, Olivier - 2015
unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …
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The ARRA : Some Unpleasant Welfare Arithmetic
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2012
foregone unemployment insurance about equally erode the rewards from retaining a job, or starting a new one …
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The Cyclicality of Births and Babies' Health, Revisited : Evidence from Unemployment Insurance
Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …
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Spending and Job-Finding Impacts of Expanded Unemployment Benefits : Evidence from Administrative Micro Data
Ganong, Peter; Greig, Fiona E.; Noel, Pascal J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job …
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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