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Will China Eat Our Lunch or Take Us Out to Dinner? Simulating the Transition Paths of the U.S., EU, Japan, and China

Fehr, Hans - 2005

fall, the West and Japan see it rise by one fifth by 2030 and by three fifths by 2100. These wage increases are over and …, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period …

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Monetary Policy and Performance in the U.S., Japan and Europe, 1973-86

Fischer, Stanley - 1987

Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …

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The GDPR and SDK Usage In Android Mobile Apps

Jin, Ginger Zhe; Liu, Ziqiao; Wagman, Liad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data on Software Development Kits (SDKs), we study SDKs in Android apps vis-à-vis the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the European Union in May 2018. Relative to US-only apps, the number of non-Google SDKs used per app in 5 major European countries (EU5)...

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Decomposing the great trade collapse : products, prices, and quantities in the 2008-2009 crisis

Haddad, Mona - 2011

"We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price...

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...

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Prospects for Improving U.S. Patent Quality via Post-grant Opposition

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2003

The recent surge in U.S. patenting and expansion of patentable subject matter has increased patent office backlogs and raised concerns that in some cases patents of insufficient quality or with inadequate search of prior art are being issued. At the same time patent litigation and its costs are...

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Assessing the Effects of the MFA/ATC from US and World Trade Data after Its Removal

Yao, Daqing - 2015

In this paper we assess the effects of the MFA/ATC using both world trade and US data after its removal. Previous literature assesses its effects while in operation. The trade data we analyze are consistent with theoretical predictions of more trade volumes, lower product prices, smaller effect...

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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe

Justiniano, Alejandro - 2011

We set-up a real business cycle model with search and matching frictions driven by several shocks, which nests full Nash Bargaining and wage rigidity as special cases and includes other transmission mechanisms suggested by the literature for the propagation and amplification of disturbances. The...

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Systemic Sovereign Credit Risk : Lessons from the U.S. and Europe

Ang, Andrew - 2011

We study the nature of systemic sovereign credit risk using CDS spreads for the U.S. Treasury, individual U.S. states, and major European countries. Using a multifactor affine framework that allows for both systemic and sovereign-specific credit shocks, we find that there is considerable...

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Safety-Net Benefits Conferred on Difficult-to-Fail-and-Unwind Banks in the US and EU Before and During the Great Recession

Carbo-Valverde, Santiago - 2011

This paper models and estimates ex ante safety-net benefits at a sample of large banks in US and Europe during 2003-2008. Our results suggest that difficult-to-fail and unwind (DFU) banks enjoyed substantially higher ex ante benefits than other institutions. Safety-net benefits prove...

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