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U.S. Banks, Crises, and Bailouts : From Mexico to LTCM
Stulz, Rene M. - 2000
This paper investigates the impact on bank stock prices of emerging market currency crises and bailouts. The stock market distinguishes between banks with exposure to a crisis country and other banks. In general, banks with exposures to a crisis country are affected adversely by currency events...
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
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Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities : Evidence from U.S. Industrialization, 1850-1880
Kim, Sukkoo - 2006
Industrial revolution in the United States first took hold in rural New England as factories arose and grew in a handful of industries such as textiles and shoes. However, as factory scale economies rose and factory production techniques were adopted by an ever growing number of industries,...
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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?
Kim, Sukkoo - 2005
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the exact nature of their causal relationship is still open to considerable debate. This paper uses firm-level data from the manuscripts of the decennial censuses between 1850 and...
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Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States
Hilt, Eric - 2015
This paper analyses the general incorporation statutes for manufacturing firms adopted by the American states up to 1860. Prior to the enactment of a general law, a business could only incorporate by obtaining a special act of their state legislature; general statutes facilitated incorporation...
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Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction? : The U.S. Textile and Apparel Industries since 1972
Levinsohn, Jim - 2001
Are the U.S. textile and apparel industries examples of creative destruction or are they just plain destructing? We investigate this question using both aggregate industry-level data and plant-level data from the U.S. Census' LRD. We find that while the aggregate-level evidence is consistent...
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Predicting cycles in economic activity
Haltmaier, Jane T. - 2008
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Immigration, remittances and business cycles
Mandelman, Federico S.; Zlate, Andrei - 2012 - rev.
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On the Instability of Variance Decompositions of the Real Exchange Rate across Exchange-Rate-Regimes : Evidence from Mexico and the United States
Mendoza, Enrique G. - 2000
Variance decompositions of the Mexico-United States real exchange rate are examined using monthly data on consumer … tradable goods and nominal exchange rates holds only in periods in which Mexico was not under a regime of exchange …-rate management. In periods in the sample in which Mexico had a managed exchange-rate regime, the variability of prices of non …
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