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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle

Kydland, Finn - 2012

Over the U.S. business cycle, fluctuations in residential investment are well known to systematically lead GDP. These dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is broadly coincident with GDP. Nonresidential investment...

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Do Prices and Attributes Explain International Differences in Food Purchases?

Dubois, Pierre - 2013

Food purchases differ substantially across countries. We use detailed household level data from the US, France and the … prices and characteristics are important and can explain some difference (e.g., US-France difference in caloric intake), but … environment and differences in preferences is needed to explain cross country differences …

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Do Labor Market Policies Have Displacement Effects? Evidence from a Clustered Randomized Experiment

Crepon, Bruno - 2014

) impacts of job placement assistance on the labor market outcomes of young, educated job seekers in France. We use a two …-step design. In the first step, the proportions of job seekers to be assigned to treatment (0%, 25%, 50%, 75% or100%) were …

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Labor Laws and Innovation

Acharya, Viral V. - 2014

Stringent labor laws can provide firms a commitment device to not punish short-run failures and thereby spur their employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify this effect by exploiting the time-series variation...

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Global Inequality Dynamics : New Findings from Wid.World

Alvaredo, Facundo - 2017

.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United …

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008

We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...

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Innovation and Productivity Across Four European Countries

Griffith, Rachel - 2007

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain …

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Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War

Hall, George J. - 2002

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended …

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