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Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is an influential book more than seventy years after its publication. This paper examines his arguments and finds that they come up short in many ways and suggests that we have taken "another road to serfdom". Hayek's mind was completely closed to the...
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Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...
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Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …
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parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France …, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the …
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This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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the case of France. We build a simple model that incorporates the main features of the system, such as the uniform premium … France we find that the stylized factsʺ of the system correspond to our results. Additionally, the policies implemented by …
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-data from a major euro-area economy (France), we develop calibrated versions of these models. We assess the consequences for …
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concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …
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