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We review the evidence that artificial intelligence (AI) is having a large effect on the economy. Across a variety of …
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This paper reviews six English-language books on the economy of Israel. Each book was written or edited by Israelis …, and each is from a different decade. The earliest book, Don Patinkin%u2019s The Israel Economy: The First Decade, was … written in the late 1950s, and the most recent volume, The Israeli Economy, 1985 - 1998: From Government Intervention to …
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The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …
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investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …
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This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...
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Herbert Hoover. I develop a theory of labor market failure for the Depression based on Hoover's industrial labor program that provided industry with protection from unions in return for keeping nominal wages fixed. I find that the theory accounts for much of the depth of the Depression and for...
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economy that remained a region in a much larger national economy with one that evolved into an independent political unit …
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more than longer time series or special `controlled experiments.' It suggests an historical definition of the economy … structure of the economy. This essay reviews American macroeconomic history to illustrate its potential uses and draw out …
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, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic … integration with global product markets has increased both average income and job turnover in Colombia. In contrast, the …
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This paper studies the effects of marketing choice to firm growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements with continuous arrival of new potential producers. A firm enters a market if it is profitable to incur the marginal cost to reach the first...
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