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Grossman, Gene M. - 1994

Using data assembled by the Global Environmental Monitoring System we examine the reduced-form relationship between various environmental indicators and the level of a country's per capita income. Our study covers four types of indicators: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the...

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Environment, Health, and Human Capital

Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2013

between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in …

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Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock : Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical shock affecting firms using inputs similar to the imported...

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The French (Trade) Revolution of 1860 : Intra-Industry Trade and Smooth Adjustment

Becuwe, Stéphane - 2018

The Cobden-Chevalier treaty of 1860 eliminated many French import prohibitions and lowered tariffs between France and … other nations followed because of the use of the unconditional-MFN clause. Post-1860 in France, we find a significant rise …

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

implications for the severity of the COVID-19 recession, the design of policies, and the speed of the recovery …

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Answering the Queen : Machine Learning and Financial Crises

Fouliard, Jeremy - 2020

Financial crises cause economic, social and political havoc. Macroprudential policies are gaining traction but are still severely under-researched compared to monetary policy and fiscal policy. We use the general framework of sequential predictions also called online machine learning to forecast...

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The Impact of Regulation on Innovation

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

endogenous growth model with size-contingent regulations. We apply this to population administrative firm panel data from France …

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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century

Cette, Gilbert - 2009

higher in France than in the United States, and noticeably lower in the United Kingdom (by roughly 10%) and even lower in … Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in … to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable catching …

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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2009

The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various radical institutional changes. French invasion removed the...

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