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The Economy of Israel
Fischer, Stanley - 1983
The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477909
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Studying Texts : A Gemara of the Israeli Economy
Klein, Michael W. - 2005
This paper reviews six English-language books on the economy of Israel. Each book was written or edited by Israelis …, and each is from a different decade. The earliest book, Don Patinkin's The Israel Economy: The First Decade, was written … in the late 1950s, and the most recent volume, The Israeli Economy, 1985 - 1998: From Government Intervention to Market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467331
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AI and the Economy
Furman, Jason - 2018
We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453031
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Macroeconomic Responses by Developing Countries to Changes in External Economic Conditions
Buiter, Willem H. - 1986
The paper presents a non-technical survey of some of the issues involved in the design of stabilization policy 10 developng countries with special emphasis on policy responses to external shocks. First, the six imost imortant external economic parameters of developing countries are reviewed; I)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477240
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Macroeconomic Policy Design in an Interdependent World Economy : An Analysis of Three Contingencies
Buiter, Willem H. - 1985
The paper uses a small analytical two-region (the United States and the Rest of the Industrial World) model, to analyze three issues Concerning international economic interdependence and macroeconomic policy coordination that have been raised in connection with the September1985 World Economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477333
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459015
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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfalls
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2010
Estimating the effect of trade on capital flows is difficult given the inherent identification problem. We use fluctuations in rainfall to capture the exogenous variation in trade between Germany, France, the U.K., and the Ottoman Empire during 1859-1913. The provisionistic policy of the Ottoman...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462618
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Riding the Wave of Trade : Explaining the Rise of Labor Regulation in the Golden Age of Globalization
Huberman, Michael - 2009
The received view pins the adoption of labor regulation before 1914 on domestic forces. Using directed dyad-year event history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to encourage a level playing field. The type of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463276
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On the Death of Distance and Borders : Evidence from the Nineteenth Century
Jacks, David S. - 2009
In this paper, we investigate time-dependent border and distance effects in the nineteenth century and document clear declines in the importance of these variables through time. What this suggests, in light of the work for the post-1950 era, is that researchers might have correctly identified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463399
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Trade and Empire
Mitchener, Kris James - 2008
Although many modern studies find large and significant effects of prior colonial status on bilateral trade, there is very little empirical research that has focused on the contemporaneous impact of empire on trade. We employ a new database of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464882