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Social Media, Sentiment and Public Opinions : Evidence from #Brexit and #Uselection
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018
This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the role of bots in shaping public opinions. Using Twitter data on the 2016 E.U. Referendum (“Brexit”) and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we find that diffusion of information on Twitter is largely complete within 1-2 hours....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918621
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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle
Kydland, Finn - 2012
dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099826
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Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?
Ferraro, Domenico - 2012
This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107723
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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Ets)
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2014
little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070135
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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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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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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012386
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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth
Kaplan, Greg - 2014
accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054868
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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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Capital Flows to the New World as an Intergenerational Transfer
Taylor, Alan M.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
countries of Canada, Australia, the USA, Argentina and the rest of Latin America. The resource abundant New World was endowed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217243