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Investment in Preventive Care for Children of Middle Eastern Ancestry During the Trump Administration

Danagoulian, Shooshan; Fleming, Owen; Grossman, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Individuals of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ancestry in the US have been targeted by anti-immigrant and counterterrorism policies and have been the focus of vitriolic political rhetoric. Despite this, lack of data identifying MENA individuals has prevented systematic evaluation of the...

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The Imbalances of the Bretton Woods System 1965 to 1973 : U.S. Inflation, The Elephant in the Room

Bordo, Michael D. - 2018

This paper argues that the key deep underlying fundamental for the growing international imbalances leading to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system between 1971 and 1973 was rising U.S. inflation since 1965. It was driven in turn by expansionary fiscal and monetary policies--the elephant in...

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U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

The paper provides a survey of fiscal and monetary policies during the 1930s under the Hoover and Roosevelt Administrations and how they influenced the policies during the recent Great Recession. The discussion of the causal impacts of monetary policy focuses on papers written in the last decade...

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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights

Qian, Nancy - 2010

This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...

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Policy Watch : Challenges for Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States

Kunreuther, Howard - 2004

This paper examines the role that insurance has played in dealing with terrorism before and after September 11, 2001, by focusing on the distinctive challenges associated with terrorism as a catastrophic risk. The Terrorism Risk Insurance Act of 2002 (TRIA) was passed by the U.S. Congress in...

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Lobbying Behind the Frontier

Bombardini, Matilde; Cutinelli-Rendina, Olimpia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

competition in U.S. industries. Lobbying expenditures increase as a consequence of import changes related to the China shock. The … effect on lobbying is not homogeneous across firms and it concentrates particularly in those producers which are behind the … technological frontier. We discuss theoretical mechanisms driving lobbying of firms away from the technological frontier: not only …

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Optimal Tariffs and Trade Policy Formation : U.S. Evidence from the Smoot-Hawley Era

Irwin, Douglas A.; Soderbery, Anson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

well as industry lobbying data. We find that tariff levels are largely determined by firm lobbies, but about about 5 …

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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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Lobbying Physicians : Payments from Industry and Hospital Procurement of Medical Devices

Bergman, Alon; Grennan, Matthew; Swanson, Ashley - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We draw upon newly merged administrative data sets to study the relationship between payments from medical technology firms to physicians and medical device procurement by hospitals. These payments (and the interactions that accompany them) may facilitate the transfer of valuable information to...

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Land and Credit : A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century

Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2009

Economists have argued that a high concentration of land holdings in a country can create powerful interest groups that retard the creation of economic institutions, and thus hold back economic development. Could these arguments apply beyond underdeveloped countries with backward political...

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