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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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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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Real exchange rates in small open OECD and transition economies : comparing apples with oranges?
Égert, Balázs (contributor);  … - 2007
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Endogenous growth in an open economy and the real exchange rate
Federici, Daniela; Gandolfo, Giancarlo - 2001
This paper is a step in the direction of a larger research project aimed at determining the long run equilibrium value of the euro/dollar real exchange rate. Given this value, one could then give a precise meaning to the notion of undervaluation or overvaluation of the euro, and calculate its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399353
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Agricultural price shocks and business cycles a global warning for advanced economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
For a panel of 75 countries, we find that increases in global agricultural commodity prices that are caused by unfavorable harvest shocks in other regions of the world significantly curtail domestic economic activity. The effects are much larger than for average global agricultural price shifts....
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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
commodity price shocks. Both approaches deliver similar conclusions. Specifically, an unfavorable food commodity market shock …
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Commodity price shocks and global cycles : monetary policy matters
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Mori, Lorenzo; Peersman, Gert - 2024
We employ a structural VAR model with global and US variables to study the relevance and transmission of oil, food commodities, and industrial input price shocks. We show that commodities are not all alike. Industrial input price changes are almost entirely endogenous responses to other shocks....
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Some macroeconomic consequences of basic income and employment subsidies
Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William M. - 2003
Two macro models one for a closed economy and the other for a small open economy are used to examine the scope for income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic income) and an employment subsidy are examined, and these...
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The transitional dynamics of fiscal policy in small open economies
Heijdra, Ben J. (contributor);  … - 2006
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A model for international spillovers to emerging markets
Houssa, Romain; Mohimont, Jolan; Otrok, Christopher M. - 2019
This paper develops a small open economy (SOE) dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model that helps to explain business cycle synchronization between an emerging market and advanced economies. The model captures the specificities of both economies (e.g. primary commodity,...
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