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The intended and unintended effects of US agricultural and biotechnology policies
Zivin, Joshua S. Graff (contributor);  … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517862
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Long-run Impacts of Agricultural Shocks on Educational Attainment : Evidence from the Boll Weevil
Baker, Richard B. - 2018
The boll weevil spread across the Southern United States from 1892 to 1922 having a devastating impact on cotton …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481047
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Evolving Discretionary Practices of U.S Antidumping Activity
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2003
Previous literature has discussed the procedural biases that exist in U.S. Department of Commerce (USDOC) dumping margin calculations. This paper examines the evolution of discretionary practices and their role in the rapid increase in average USDOC dumping margins since 1980. Statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469073
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The Optimal Tax on Antebellum U.S. Cotton Exports
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2001
The United States produced about 80 percent of the world's cotton in the decades prior to the Civil War. How much … monopoly power did the United States possess in the world cotton market and what would have been the effect of an optimal … export tax? This paper estimates the elasticity of foreign demand for U.S. cotton exports and uses the elasticity in a simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470026
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Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of World War I : The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Dissenting Policy
White, Eugene N. - 2015
a reallocation of liquidity to its district during the contraction. Viewing the collapse of the price of cotton, the … of cotton collateral that would precipitate a general panic. In this previously unknown episode, the Federal Reserve … Atlanta Fed was vindicated when the shock to cotton prices proved to be temporary, and the Board conceded that the Reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457327
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Does management matter? : evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011
"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394862
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394918
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471281
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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle
Hulten, Charles R. - 1999
We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471341
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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry
Arora, Ashish - 1999
A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471530