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Agricultural Interest Groups and the North American Free Trade Agreement
Orden, David - 2015
This paper evaluates the influence of diverse U.S. agricultural interest groups on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Under NAFTA, licenses and quotas that restricted agricultural trade between Mexico and the United States were converted to tariffs in January 1994 and all tariffs...
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Ohio School Milk Markets : An Analysis of Bidding
Porter, Robert H.; Zona, J. Douglas - 2021
We examine the institutional details of the school milk procurement process, bidding data, statements of dairy executives, and supply characteristics in Ohio during the 1980's. We compare the bidding behavior of a group of firms to a control group. We find that the behavior of each of the firms...
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The Price Impact of Joining a Currency Union : Evidence from Latvia
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
consumption goods. We consider the case of Latvia, which recently dropped its pegged exchange rate and joined the euro zone. We … between Latvia and euro zone countries collapsed swiftly following entry to the euro. The percentage of goods with nearly … identical prices in Latvia and Germany increased from 6 percent to 89 percent. The median size of price differentials declined …
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Taxation and Market Work : Is Scandinavia an Outlier?
Rogerson, Richard - 2010
This paper argues that it is essential to explicitly consider how the government spends tax revenues when assessing the effects of tax rates on aggregate hours of market work. Different forms of government spending imply different elasticities of hours of work with regard to tax rates. I...
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Leaders and Followers : Perspectives on the Nordic Model and the Economics of Innovation
Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2014
This paper is an exercise in comparative institutional analysis, asking what kinds of arrangements most facilitate innovation. After identifying pervasive market failures in innovation, it explains why those associated with the Nordic model may be particularly conducive to innovation, and...
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Open Economy Forces and Late 19th Century Scandinavian Catch-Up
O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
Scandinavia recorded very high growth rates between 1870 and 1914, catching up with the leaders. This paper estimates that about two-thirds of the Scandinavian catching up on Britain was due to the open economy forces of global factor and commodity market integration. All of the Scandinavian...
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Policy vs. Consumer Pressure : Innovation and Diffusion of Alternative Bleaching Technologies in the Pulp Industry
Popp, David - 2012
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, concern over dioxin in both paper products and wastewater led to the development of techniques that reduced the use of chlorine in the pulp industry. Both regulatory and consumer pressure motivated this change. We use patent data to examine the evolution of two...
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Health and Nutrition in the Preindustrial Era : Insights from a Millennium of Average Heights in Northern Europe
Steckel, Richard H. - 2022
This essay places the debate over human welfare during industrialization in the context of very long-term economic developments by examining an important aspect of living standards--health and nutrition--since the Middle Ages. I use average stature determined from military records along with a...
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Fixed Exchange Rates as a Means to Price Stability : What Have We Learned
Svensson, Lars E. O. - 2022
The paper discusses what we have learned from last year's currency crises in ERM and the Nordic countries about fixed exchange rates as a means to achieve price stability. After discussing the explanations for the crises, the paper concludes that fixed exchange rates are not a shortcut to price...
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Tax Evasion and Inequality
Alstadsæter, Annette - 2017
This paper attempts to estimate the size and distribution of tax evasion in rich countries. We combine random audits—the key source used to study tax evasion so far—with new micro-data leaked from large offshore financial institutions—HSBC Switzerland (“Swiss leaks”) and Mossack...
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