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Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient Under Covid-19? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020
Arita, Shawn; Grant, Jason; Sydow, Sharon S.; Beckman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Global agricultural trade, which increased at the end of 2020, has been described as "resilient" to the impacts of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic; however, the size and channels of its quantitative impacts are not clear. Using a reduced-form, gravity-based econometric model for monthly trade,...
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Issues in US-EC trade relations : [proceedings of a conference, June 12. - 14., 1986, Brussels, Belgium]
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 1988
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On the Economics of Extinction and Mass Extinctions
Taylor, Michael Scott; Weder, Rolf - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Human beings' domination of the planet has not been kind to many species worldwide. This is to be expected. Humans have radically altered natural landscapes, harvested heavily from the ocean, and altered the climate in an unprecedented way. Recent concerns over the extent and rate of...
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Canada-U.S. tax comparisons
Shoven, John B. (ed.); Whalley, John (contributor) - 1992
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The Long-Run Labor Market Effects of the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement
Kovak, Brian K.; Morrow, Peter M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper assesses the long-run effects of the 1988 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) on the Canadian labor …
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
received their K-12 education domestically). We obtain similar results for immigrant sorting in Canada, which supports our …
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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
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Returns to Different Postsecondary Investments : Institution Type, Academic Programs, and Credentials
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Smith, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is highly differentiated, with a variety of options that differ by credential (associates degree, bachelor's degree,...
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Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges
Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...
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Productivity and Pay in the US and Canada
Greenspon, Jacob; Stansbury, Anna M.; Summers, Lawrence … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … positive increase in the rate of pay growth, holding all else equal. This linkage appears stronger in the US than in Canada … productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …
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