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CRUDE OIL AND MOTOR FUEL: FAIR PRICE REVISITED

Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In April 2009, we introduced a model representing the evolution of motor fuel price (a subcategory of the consumer price index of transportation) relative to the overall CPI as a linear function of time. Under our framework, all price deviations from the linear trend are transient and the price...

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28th out of 30: Poor medicine and unhealthy Americans

Fullbrook, Edward - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In 1970 the USA spent 7% of its GNP on healthcare, in 200716%. Whereas the OECD average per capita expenditure on … healthcare in 2007 was $2,964, the USA spent $7,290. Yet in that same period, the health of America’s citizens relative to those … up around healthcare in the USA. Because the magnitude of the relative decline in healthcare in the USA is poorly …

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Is the US Demand for Money Unstable?

Rao, B. Bhaskara; Kumar, Saten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The demand for money (M1) for the USA is estimated with annual data from 1960-2008 and its stability is analyzed with …

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Un indicateur d'entrée et sortie de récession: application aux Etats-Unis

Anas, Jacques; Ferrara, Laurent - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This working paper presents a new coincident economic indicator developed by the COE, able to detect in real time peaks and troughs of the american business cycle. This probabilistic indicator is based on the Markov-Switching model proposed by Hamilton (1989), applied to various economic time...

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Modeling the evolution of Gini coefficient for personal incomes in the USA between 1947 and 2005

Kitov, Ivan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The evolution of Gini coefficient for personal incomes in the USA between 1947 and 2005 is analyzed and modeled. There … definition of income. Therefore the model Gini coefficient potentially better describes true behavior of inequality in the USA …

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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies

Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike; Molburg, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

plants within a region. The emissions inventories (GECOT and AIRS for the USA and RDIS for Canada) were used as the major … 2010. Future work will investigate interregional trading, especially between the bordering states of the USA and provinces …

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Geography, population density, and per-capita income gaps across US states and Canadian provinces

Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter; Basher, Syed A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

. Geography determined where Europeans originally settled: in Northeastern USA, along those segments of the Atlantic coast where …

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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany

Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994

Choosing an appropriate equivalence scale is a prerequisite for comparisons of economic wellbeing income distribution, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use a country specific equivalence scale (social...

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The emergence and growth of US-style business education in Mexico (1955-2005)

Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Structured Abstract Purpose - This article contributes to efforts documenting the incursion of Anglo-American capitalism into Latin America by looking at the emergence and development of graduate and postgraduate business education in Mexico. Design/methodology/approach - Archival research...

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Is it fair to treat China as a Christmas tree to hang everybody’s complaints? putting its own energy saving into perspective

Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

China has been the world’s second largest carbon emitter for years. Recent studies show that China had overtaken the U.S. as the world’s largest emitter in 2007. This has put China on the spotlight, just at a time when the world community starts negotiating a post-Kyoto climate regime under...

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