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The Chinese Corporate Savings Puzzle : A Firm-level Cross-country Perspective
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2010
China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462224
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Is Public R&D a Complement or Substitute for Private R&D? A Review of the Econometric Evidence
David, Paul A. - 1999
Is public R&D spending complementary and thus "additional" to private R&D spending, or does it substitute for and tend to "crowd out" private R&D? Conflicting answers are given to this question. We survey the body of available economectric evidence accumulated over the past 35 years. A framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471411
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Inflation targeting and private sector forecasts
Cecchetti, Stephen G. - 2009
In this paper we study the degree to which increased information about monetary policy might lead to individuals coordinating their forecasts. Specifically, we estimate a series of simple models to measure the impact of inflation targeting on the dispersion of private sector forecasts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463225
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What We Spend and What We Get : Public and Private Provision of Crime Prevention
Witte, Ann Dryden - 2001
In this paper, we consider a number of issues regarding crime prevention and criminal justice. We begin by considering how crime is measured and present both general and specific evidence on the level of crime in a variety of countries. Crime is pervasive and varies substantially across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470520
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Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings
Simcoe, Timothy - 2012
We measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460274
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Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans - International Evidence
Ponds, Eduard - 2011
In order to arrive at a fair comparison between countries regarding the fiscal burden of their DB public sector pension plans, this paper gathers more evidence on public sector pension plans regarding the type of pension promise and quantifies the future tax burden related to these pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461575
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U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
Asquith, Brian J. - 2017
the industry and commuting-zone levels, and then estimates the impact of the `China shock' on each job-flow type. The … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change … that granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to China. We find that the China shock affects U.S. employment …
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Venture capital availability and labour market performance around the world
Feldmann, Horst - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 1/3, pp. 14-29
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Dynamic factor demand in a rationing model
Smolny, Werner - In: Applied economics 29 (1997) 8, pp. 1091-1101
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Expectations and the adjustment of hours and employment
Kraft, Kornelius - In: Applied economics 21 (1989) 4, pp. 487-495
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