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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States
Leigh, Andrew - 2020
-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …
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Modeling fluctuations in the global demand for commodities
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2017
It is widely understood that the real price of globally traded commodities is determined by the forces of demand and supply. One of the main determinants of the real price of commodities is shifts in the demand for commodities associated with unexpected fluctuations in global real economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011754229
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Commodity price effects on currencies
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Wang, Wenhao - 2022
Using quarterly data on four commodity exporting countries, we study the explanatory power of real commodity prices for predicting real effective exchange rates, with special attention to the separate roles of different sectoral commodity prices during alternative time periods. We find that the...
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A reappraisal of the border effect on relative price volatility
Cheung, Yin-Wong (contributor); Lai, Kon-sun (contributor) - 2006
Engel and Rogers (1996) find that crossing the US-Canada border can considerably raise relative price volatility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003300940
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Supplementary private health insurance in selected countries : lessons for EU governments?
Gechert, Sebastian - 2009
quality of service. To test these reasonings, the paper draws empirical evidence from the health systems of Australia, Canada …
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Globalization and domestic conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle Robin (contributor);  … - 2005
price obtains in international markets, countries tend to over-export the contested resource relative to what we would …
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Efficient management of insecure fossil fuel Imports through taxing (!) domestic green energy?
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2010
A small open economy produces a consumer good, green and black energy, and imports fossil fuel at an uncertain price. Unregulated competitive markets are shown to be inefficient. The implied market failures are due to the agents' attitudes toward risk, to risk shifting and the uniform price for...
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The relative volatility of commodity prices : a reappraisal
Arezki, Rabah; Lederman, Daniel; Zhao, Hongyan - 2011
terms of trade volatility in developing countries with concentrated export baskets remain. -- international commodity prices …
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Global cycles : capital flows, commodities, and sovereign defaults, 1815-2015
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Reinhart, Vincent; Trebesch, Christoph - 2016 - This draft: January 13, 2016
Capital flow and commodity cycles have long been connected with economic crises. Sparse historical data, however, has made it difficult to connect their timing. We date turning points in global capital flows and commodity prices across two centuries and provide estimates from alternative data...
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Macro news and commodity returns
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2015
This paper adopts a VAR-GARCH approach to model the dynamic linkages between both the mean and the variance of macro news and commodity returns (Gold, Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Silver, Platinum, Palladium, Copper, Aluminium and Crude Oil) over the period 01/01/2001-26/09/2014. The chosen...
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