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Airport noise regulation, airline service quality, and social welfare
Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Girvin, Raquel (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003379804
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Holes in the dike : the global savings glut, US house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation
Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2015
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted … measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history of interstate-banking deregulation during the 1980s, i.e. prior … of deregulation: in states that opened their banking markets to out-of-state banks earlier, house prices were more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010515411
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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004
California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402612
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Softening the blow : U.S. state level banking deregulation and sectoral reallocation after the China trade shock
Hoffmann, Mathias; Ruslanova, Lilia - 2021
U.S. state-level banking deregulation during the 1980’s mitigated the impact of the China trade shock (CTS) on local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438347
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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance : how risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?
Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011
The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375066
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Inequality and economic growth : European versus U.S. experiences
Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2003
This paper discusses long-term trends in the macroeconomic growth performance and in income distribution in Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011509368
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The economics of pending patents
Koenen, Johannes; Peitz, Martin - 2011
We provide a treatment of a number of questions pertaining to pending patents – a subject that has so-far mainly been discussed en-passant in the existing literature. We present the underlying institutional and legal framework that governs pending patents and some basic facts related to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009383554
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US welfare reform : what's relevant for Europe?
Blank, Rebecca M. - 2002
This paper reviews the U.S. welfare reform efforts over the 1990s and the effects of these reforms to date. Seven lessons of potential interest to European observers are discussed, with particular attention to the conclusions of more recent research. Such research indicates, for example, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410428
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Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes : evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018
We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011919474