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unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
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) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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Industrialization experiences differ significantly across countries. We use a bench-mark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...
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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 …
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evidence from prayers for rain in Murcia, Spain that the church follows such an optimal policy and that its prayers therefore … for rain is more likely among ethnic groups dependent on intensive agriculture for subsistence and that ethnic groups …
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and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
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This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
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One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …
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prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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