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This empirical study focuses on identifying the key economic factors and other conditions that have influenced the per customer commercial and industrial consumption of electricity in the United States during recent years. Unlike most previous studies, this study uses a 5-year state-level panel...
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This exploratory empirical article provides recent evidence on the impact of the US federal budget deficit on the nominal interest rate yield on Moody's Aaa-rated long-term corporate bonds. The study is couched within a loanable funds model that includes an <italic>ex ante</italic> real short-term real interest...
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This empirical note seeks to provide evidence identifying key factors that have influenced the per residential customer consumption of electricity in the United States during recent years, with particular emphasis on the degree to which each state has pursued energy efficiency policies. This...
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Several recent empirical studies find a strong, positive impact of economic freedom on economic growth. This finding is predicated upon the argument that increased economic freedom elevates the pace of economic activity through incentives and other means and hence generates higher economic...
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This empirical study investigates determinants of interstate differentials in the cost of housing for the year 2006. While the literature on geographic cost-of-living differentials is well developed, the literature on geographic cost-of-housing (as opposed to housing-price) differentials is much...
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