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Measuring fiscal stance for the United Kingdom, 1920-1990

van der Eng, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a very concise way of measuring fiscal stance. This procedure is based on the assumption that the ‘neutral change’ in the government budget can best be simulated with a long-term approximation of the underlying trend of total output....

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The Pattern of Foreign Market Entry of Canadian Exporters

Sui, Sui; Yu, Zhihao - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper employs a unique large-scale longitudinal (1997–2005) dataset to investigate the pattern of foreign market entry by 6,079 Canadian exporters. We have found that fewer firms are choosing the United States as their initial export destination. This trend suggests that a growing number...

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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

predict the dynamics of personal incomes for every single person in the working-age population in the USA between 1930 and …

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Globalization and United States’ Intra-Industry Trade

Leitão, Nuno Carlos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The recent trend of globalization has given rise to a new paradigm in international economics, i.e. the simultaneous exports and imports of a product within country or a particular industry called intra-industry trade (IIT) or two-way trade. This study examines country-levels determinants of...

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United States Economic Policy Toward Asia

Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The relationship between the US and Asia will be the single biggest determinant in the evolution of the global economic system. In the absence of adequate reform at the global level, the alternative could be further fragmentation into competing regional blocs. Asia holds the key, combining both...

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The U.S. proposed carbon tariffs, wto scrutiny and China's reponses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

With countries from around the world set to meet in Copenhagen to try to hammer out a post-2012 climate change agreement, no one would disagree that a U.S. commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions is essential to such a global pact. However, despite U.S. president Obama’s recent announcement...

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Inflation as restructuring. A theoretical and empirical account of the U.S. experience

Nitzan, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...

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Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic finance and socially responsible investment

Pitluck, Aaron Z. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper addresses the puzzle of why the inclusion of non-financial social justice or religious criteria by professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic...

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Using the Beveridge & Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks

Gómez-Sorzano, Gustavo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper continues my research program on violence and terrorism started 15 years ago. It presents in the first part through empirical exercises, the suitability of The Beveridge and Nelson decomposition of economic time series for pointing out the occurrence of terrorist attacks. It presents...

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Poverty in Europe and the USA: Exchanging official measurement methods

Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them … Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) for the USA, we compare poverty trends in the USA and EU in relative and absolute terms on a …

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