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How "Original Sin" Was Overcome : The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions
Bordo, Michael D.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Redish, Angela - 2021
several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313637
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075869
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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective
Basu, Susanto; Taylor, Alan M. - 2021
This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227745
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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831280
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Commodity Currencies and Monetary Policy
Devereux, Michael B. - 2018
mechanism and test the over-identifying restrictions for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910649
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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States
Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023
The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...
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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods
Barrett, Garry F. - 2013
Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074227
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Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems : An International Comparison
Beshears, John - 2015
What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022597
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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom
Wilson, Karen - 2021
; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … "production" approach inherent in the Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is … institutional sectors of the economy. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229136
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Cost of Capital for the United States, Japan, and Canada : An Attempt at Measurement Based on Individual Company Records and Aggregate National Acccoun
Ando, Albert; Hancock, John; Sawchuk, Gary David - 2021
countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …
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