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Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment

Parker, David - 2004

This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …

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The political economy of early Covid-19 interventions in US states

Gonzalez-Eiras, Martín; Niepelt, Dirk - 2022

We investigate how politico-economic factors shaped government responses to the spread of COVID-19. Our simple framework uses epidemiological, economic and politico-economic arguments. Confronting the theory with US state level data we find strong evidence for partisanship even when we control...

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Explaining vaccine hesitancy : a Covid-19 study of the United States

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W. - 2022

Using recent data on the unvaccinated across U.S. states, this paper focuses on the determinants of vaccine hesitancy related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that more prosperous states and states with more elderly and physicians have lower vaccine hesitancy. There was some evidence of...

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Work-sharing : an efficiency-wage analysis

Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2000

This paper evaluates two approaches to work-sharing by examining both within the same macro model. The standard approach involves imposing a quantity constraint on labour market participants (a maximum number of standard hours for each worker). This approach is compared to a revenue-neutral...

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Social assistance and labour supply

Christofidēs, Loizos N. - 1999

The longitudinal, 1988-89, LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endoge nous selection of social assistance status,...

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The employment effects of a pandemic wage subsidy

Smart, Michael; Kronberg, Matthew; Lesica, Josip; … - 2023

We estimate the causal effects of a pandemic-era wage subsidy program in Canada on job losses and business closures …

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The empire project : trade policy in interwar Canada

Lampe, Markus; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Reiter, Lorenz; … - 2023

This paper uses a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936, disaggregated into 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...

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To react or not? : fiscal policy, volatility and welfare in the EU-3

Malley, James R. (contributor); … - 2007

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Counterfactual analysis in macroeconometrics : an empirical investigation into the effects of quantitative easing

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2012

applied to the evaluation of the effects of the quantitative easing (QE) in the UK after March 2009. It is estimated that a … the policy intervention. -- counterfactuals ; policy evaluation ; macroeconomics ; quantitative easing (QE) ; UK economic …

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