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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will J.; … - 2022
) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … that currently tax agriculture have high emission intensities. Policies that directly reduce emission intensities yield …
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Growing in Debt : the 'Farm Crisis' and Public Policy
Calomiris, Charles W.; Hubbard, R. Glenn; Stock, James H. - 2021
unable for institutional reasons to diversify their loan risks either within agriculture or across other geographically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212908
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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the Us, Canada, Spain, and the UK
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2014
We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 … payments crises and natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain, and the UK, in contrast, is largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069156
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Heterogeneous Paths of Industrialization
Huneeus, Federico; Rogerson, Richard - 2022
Industrialization experiences differ substantially across countries. We use a benchmark model of structural change to shed light on the sources of this heterogeneity and, in particular, the phenomenon of premature deindustrialization. Our analysis leads to three key findings. First, benchmark...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013300930
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Target Loans, Current Account Balances and Capital Flows : The Ecb's Rescue Facility
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2011
destroyed the Bretton Woods System. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy have suffered from balance-of-payments deficits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118098
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Political Credit Cycles : The Case of the Euro Zone
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2013
process in Greece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal and, by way of contrast, in Germany, a country that did experience a reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084731
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Nonlinearities in Sovereign Risk Pricing : The Role of CDS Index Contracts
Delatte, Anne-Laure - 2014
Is the pricing of sovereign risk linear during bearish episodes? Or can initial shocks on economic fundamentals be exacerbated by endogenous factors that create nonlinearities? We test for nonlinearities in the sovereign bond market of European peripheral countries during the debt crisis and...
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Large Countries, Small Countries, and the Enlargement of Trade Blocs
Casella, Alessandra - 2021
prediction is clear, but the empirical analysis of trade flows towards Spain and Portugal after their 1986 entry into the …
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
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A Wolfram in Sheep'S Clothing : U.S. Economic Warfare in Spain, 1940-1944
Caruana, Leonard; Rockoff, Hugh - 2021
One of the most sustained uses of economic warfare by the United States occurred in Spain during WWII. We provide an … battles: (1) an oil embargo against Spain in the summer of 1940, (2) pre-emptive buying of wolfram (tungsten ore) during the … when Germany was going from victory to victory, was successful in helping keep Spain neutral because it forced the Franco …
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