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Single season heteroscedasticity in time series

Tripodis, Yorghos (contributor); Penzer, Jeremy (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Exchange Rates and Profit Margins: The Case of Japanese Exporters

Klitgaard Hertel, Thomas - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

profit margins and stable export sales when the valueof the yen fluctuates. We find that Japanese firms tend tostrike a … the extent of these changes byaltering their profit margins. For Japanese exporters producingindustrial machinery …

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Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit Of Power with Profit. The Management Of Britain’s National Debt, 1756-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

The Rise Of Britain’s Fiscal Naval StateIn outline (if not in the chronological detail required for a complete and satisfactory historical narrative) the reasons why the United Kingdom evolved between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Congress of Vienna of 1815, into the most powerful...

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Thanks for nothing? Not-for-profits and motivated agents

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Müller, Hannes - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

supply of motivated workers makes the non-profit form more attractive tomanagers. We show that if firms had to compete for … motivated workers then not-for-profit firms would becompeted out by for-profit firms. Therefore, in the choice between not-for-profit … and for-profit provision, otherthan incentive problems, the distribution of rents between management and workers, and …

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The State of Welfare

Glennerster, Howard; Hills, J. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

Reform of the welfare state is at the centre of political debate. In a new book, CASEmembers analyse changes in social policies over the last twenty-five years, trends inspending, outcomes of policies, and impacts on institutions and families.The stereotypes of both left and right are wrong....

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Vertical Specialization and the Changing Nature of World Trade

Hummels, David; Rapoport, Dana; Yi, Kei-Mu - Graduate School of Business <Chicago, Ill.>; Federal …; … - 1998

[...]In this article, we shed light on the globalizationof international production and trade by demonstratingthe increasingly important role vertical specializationplays in international trade. We use case studies andinput-output tables to calculate the level and growth...

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Understanding West German Economic Growth in the 1950s

Eichengreen, Barry J.; Ritschl, Albrecht - Bureau of Business and Economic Research <Berkeley, Calif.>; … - 2008

We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence, structural change and institutional shake-up while minimizing the importance of the post-war shock. We show that this shock and its consequences were more important than...

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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper presents new regional GDP estimates for the Habsburg Monarchy and constructs measures of market potential for its 22 major regions. The paper argues that regional income differentials were significantly larger, that intra-empire catching-up of poor with rich regions was far more...

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An Estimate of Imperial Austria’s Gross Domestic Fixed Capital Stock,1870-1913: Methods, Sources and Results

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

Research into the origins of economic growth in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire has so far suffered from a lack of evidence on the evolution of the capital stock. As a first step towards a more comprehensive documentation of the role played by factor inputs in the Habsburg growth...

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The World Economy In The 1990s: A Long Run Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

This paper considers the 1990s in the context of long run economic growth performance. Growth in the context of this paper should be understood to comprise the growth of real living standards as well as real GDP per person. There were a number of new experiences during the decade that were...

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