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We use the returns on a set of international financial securities to identify exogenous shocks to the Canadian federal surplus. We find that a large portion of the variation in the surplus can be replicated by a linear combination of these returns and that the rising debt observed in the 1980s...
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This paper seeks to provide a new and chiefly monetary explanation for the origins of the sixteenth-century era of sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the question: not, as traditionally posed, why did the...
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The basic thesis is that the modern 'financial revolution', usually dated to eighteenth century England, but far more properly to the sixteenth-century Netherlands, in terms of those institutions for both government finance (borrowing) and international finance (bills of exchange), owed its...
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There are substantial cross-country differences in labor supply late in the life cycle (age 50+). A theory of labor supply and retirement decisions is developed to quantitatively assess the role of social security, disability insurance, and taxation for understanding differences in labor supply...
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model incorporates consumer exclusion. Assuming a known tariff, we establish identification of the model primitives using …
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This paper develops an efficient approach to model and forecast time-series data with an unknown number of change … posterior distribution. An application to Canada inflation time series shows the gains in forecasting precision that our model …
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This paper re-examines Earl Hamilton's famous 1929 thesis on 'Profit Inflation' and the 'birth of modern industrial capitalism': namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus providing industrial entrepreneurs with...
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We develop a theory of capital-market imperfections to study how the ability to enforce contracts affects resource allocation across entrepreneurs of different productivities, and across industries with different needs for external financing. The theory implies that countries with a poor ability...
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We build a heterogeneous life-cycle model which captures a large number of salient features of individual labor supply …, by education, over the life cycle. The model provides an aggregation theory of individual labor supply, firmly grounded … find that the aggregate labor supply responses in the model are similar to those actually observed in Iceland. …
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We build a heterogeneous life-cycle model which captures a large number of salient features of individual labor supply … over the life cycle, by education, both along the intensive and extensive margins. The model provides an aggregation theory …
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