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This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...
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Using real time data, we show that the monetary policy rule in Canada is better described by a Taylor rule augmented … Canada’s quarterly Business Outlook Survey, we study the impact of monetary policy on firms’ expectations of sales and prices …
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relation to Canada’s fiscal structure. By fiscal structure we mean three distinct but interrelated fiscal dimensions of the …
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international trade is the use of quantitative trade models to estimate the economic welfare losses from dissolutions of major … 2019, the existence of the entire North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is at risk if the United States withdraws - a … threat President Trump has made if the proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is not passed by the U.S. Congress. We …
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/redistribution trade-offs of the alternatives by results from simulation models …
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entry and exit of candidates and parties are analyzed for Canada from 1870 through 2015 first using an auto …
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1697 goods originating in 112 countries, to analyse the impact on Canadian imports of interwar Canadian trade policy …, including the 1932 Ottawa trade agreements. Rather than use a dummy variable approach, we compute the impact of individual … tariffs which varied substantially across goods, trade partners, and time. We develop a novel method of controlling for …
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Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Most pre-crisis explanations of the various corporate governance systems have considered the separation between ownership and control to be an advantage of the Anglo-American economies. They have also attributed the failure of other countries to achieve these efficient arrangements to their...
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