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South Carolina Slave Prices, 1722-1809
Mancall, Peter C. - 2000
Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise rapidly, more than doubling by the early...
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Medium Term Business Cycles
Comin, Diego - 2003
Over the postwar, the U.S., Europe and Japan have experienced what may be thought of as medium frequency oscillations between persistent periods of robust growth and persistent periods of relative stagnation. These medium frequency movements, further, appear to bear some relation to the high...
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Business Cycle Anatomy
Angeletos, George-Marios - 2018
TFP, to news about future productivity or the long run, and to demand shocks of the New Keynesian type. Instead, it …
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Farm productivity and market structure : evidence from cotton reforms in Zambia
Brambilla, Irene - 2005
"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …
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Learning by Viewing? Social Learning, Regulatory Disclosure, and Firm Productivity in Shale Gas
Fetter, T. Robert - 2018
In many industries firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters; mandatory disclosure regulations represent an understudied channel for this type of social learning. We study an environmentally-focused law in the shale gas industry to examine firms' claims that disclosure...
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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries
Bourlès, Renaud - 2010
improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … to the productivity frontier …
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Factor Adjustments After Deregulation : Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
Eslava, Marcela - 2005
would yield a substantial increase in aggregate productivity through improved allocative efficiency. Yet, the actual impact … of the Colombian deregulation on aggregate productivity through factor adjustment was modest …
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From "Hindu Growth" to Productivity Surge : The Mystery of the Indian Growth Transition
Rodrik, Dani - 2004
Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the liberalization of 1991. This paper demonstrates that the transition to high growth occured around 1980, a full decade before economic liberalization. We investigate a number of...
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The Economic Future of Europe
Blanchard, Olivier - 2004
, productivity growth has been much higher in Europe than in the United States. Productivity levels are roughly similar in the … European Union and in the United States today. The main difference is that Europe has used some of the increase in productivity …
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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?
Card, David - 2002
France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …
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