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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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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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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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better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …
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from large multi?country case studies, and from case-studies of Chile and Cote d'Ivoire presented in the paper, shows that …
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statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …
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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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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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economy that remained a region in a much larger national economy with one that evolved into an independent political unit …
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