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Energy Production and Health Externalities : Evidence from Oil Refinery Strikes in France

Lavaine, Emmanuelle - 2013

refineries in France as a natural experiment. First, we show that the temporary reduction in refining lead to a significant …

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The Use of Replacement Workers in Union Contract Negotiations : The U.S. Experience, 1980-1989

Cramton, Peter C. - 1995

It is argued in many circles that a structural change occurred in U.S. collective bargaining in the 1980s. We investigate the extent to which the hiring of replacement workers can account for this change. For a sample of over 300 major strikes since 1980, we estimate the likelihood of...

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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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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

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

Cette, Gilbert - 2009

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 …-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s …

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Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interactions : A Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Approach

Diebold, Francis X. - 2007

-specific factors. In an empirical analysis of term structures of government bond yields for the Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U …

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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 …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

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