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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, A. Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis
Card, David - 2000
United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471112
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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU
Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999
pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471641
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479167
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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 … payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462186
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS)
Carpenter, Christopher - 2010
little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using …
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Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise : Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development
Currie, Janet - 2008
There are many possible pathways between parental education, income, and health, and between child health and education, but only some of them have been explored in the literature. This essay focuses on links between parental socioeconomic status (as measured by education, income, occupation, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464659
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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008
We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464771
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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom
Wilson, Karen - 2005
. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of the components of the flow of …/borrowing across sectors. This allows Canada to track the statistical system which provides independent estimates form establishment or …; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467579
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Morck, Randall K. - 2005
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
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