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The Price Impact of Joining a Currency Union : Evidence from Latvia

Cavallo, Alberto - 2014

consumption goods. We consider the case of Latvia, which recently dropped its pegged exchange rate and joined the euro zone. We … between Latvia and euro zone countries collapsed swiftly following entry to the euro. The percentage of goods with nearly … identical prices in Latvia and Germany increased from 6 percent to 89 percent. The median size of price differentials declined …

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The economics of art museums

Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1991

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Issues in the economics of immigration

Borjas, George J. (ed.) - 2000

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Themes in the economics of aging

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 2001

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Economic Expansions Are Unhealthy : Evidence from Microdata

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2001

This study uses microdata from the 1972-1981 National Health Interview Surveys to examine how health status and medical care utilization fluctuate with state macroeconomic conditions, after controlling for personal characteristics, location fixed-effects, general time effects and (usually)...

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Searching for Prosperity

Kremer, Michael - 2001

Quah's [1993a] transition matrix analysis of world income distribution based on annual data suggests an ergodic distribution with twin peaks at the rich and poor end of the distribution. Since the ergodic distribution is a highly non-linear function of the underlying transition matrix estimated...

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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

The 1990s economic performance of the US suggests that the country may have the right mix of institutions and policies to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status and examines whether the US fulfills these criterion. The...

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The Transition Economies After Ten Years

Fischer, Stanley - 2000

While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...

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Economic Conditions, Deterrence and Juvenile Crime : Evidence from Micro Data

Mocan, H. Naci - 1999

This is the first paper to test the economic model of crime for juveniles using micro data. It uses a nationally representative sample of 16,478 high school children surveyed in 1995. The sample includes not only detailed information on offenses, but also data on personal, family and...

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Recent Developments in Macroeocnomics

Fischer, Stanley - 1987

This paper surveys much of modern macroeconomics. The focus is on the core macroeconomic issue, of the reasons for macroeconomic fluctuations and sometimes persistent unemployment. To provide continuity and perspective on how promising research leads of the past turned out, the paper starts by...

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