Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 4,579
Cover Image
Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482082
Cover Image
Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War
Hall, George J. - 2002
belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469448
Cover Image
International Transmission Under Bretton Woods
Stockman, Alan C. - 1992
This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474846
Cover Image
The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478030
Cover Image
The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn A. - 1983
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478045
Cover Image
Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2009
to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable catching … higher in France than in the United States, and noticeably lower in the United Kingdom (by roughly 10%) and even lower in … Japan (30%), while TFP levels are very close in France, the United Kingdom and the United States, but much lower (40%) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463072
Cover Image
How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective
Piketty, Thomas - 2006
United Kingdom is similar to the US pattern. France had less progressive taxes than the US or UK in 1970 but has experienced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466261
Cover Image
Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455595
Cover Image
Revisiting Productivity Dynamics in Europe : A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in five European countries and in the United States. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247926
Cover Image
Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880