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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice
Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...
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The People and the Experts
Nordhaus, William D.; Rivers, Douglas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Are speculators driving up oil prices? Should we raise energy prices to slow global warming? The present study takes a small number of such questions and compares the views of economic experts with those of the public. This comparison uses a panel of more than 2000 respondents from YouGov with...
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Financial Literacy and Financial Education : An Overview
Kaiser, Tim; Lusardi, Annamaria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This article provides a concise narrative overview of the rapidly growing empirical literature on financial literacy and financial education. We first discuss stylized facts on the demographic correlates of financial literacy. We next cover the evidence on the effects of financial literacy on...
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People's Understanding of Inflation
Binetti, Alberto; Nuzzi, Francesco; Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies people's understanding of inflation--their perceived causes, consequences, trade-offs--and the policies supported to mitigate its effects. We design a new, detailed online survey based on the rich existing literature in economics with two experimental components--a conjoint...
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A Wolfram in Sheep's Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944
Caruana, Leonard - 2001
One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an overview of this episode based on the secondary literature and new research in the Spanish archives. We focus on three key battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer...
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What Hides Behind an Umemployment Rate : Comparing Portuguese and U.S. Unemployment
Blanchard, Olivier - 1998
Over the last 15 years, Portugal and the United States have had the same average unemployment rate, about 6.5%. But … behind these similar rates hide two very different labor markets. Unemployment duration in Portugal is more than three times … that of the United States. Symmetrically, the flow of workers into unemployment in Portugal is, in proportion to the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472174
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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs
Casella, Alessandra - 1995
prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing
Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2019
, compared to Portugal's Algarve region …
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The China Shock and Employment in Portuguese Firms
Branstetter, Lee G. - 2019
This paper considers the effects of Chinese import competition on firm-level labor market outcomes in Portugal. We … examine direct competition in the Portuguese market and indirect competition Portugal's largest export markets in Western … export markets, but minimal effects of direct competition in Portugal. Our findings also suggest a centrally important role …
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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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