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Taxation and Housing Markets : Preliminary Evidence on the Effects of Recent Tax Reforms

Poterba, James M. - 2007

The tax changes of the 1980s altered the incentives for housing consumption. Marginal tax rate reductions in both the Economic Recovery Tax Act (1981) and the Tax Reform Act (1986) reduced the attraction of homeownership, particularly at high income levels. The Tax Reform Act, by lowering...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777111

Growing Up to Stability? Financial Globalization, Financial Development and Financial Crises

Bordo, Michael D. - 2015

kinds of financial crises for four countries (Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States) over the long-run …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020714

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 …

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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

Southern (American) Hospitality : Italians in Argentina and the Us During the Age of Mass Migration

Pérez, Santiago - 2019

I study the selection and economic outcomes of Italians in Argentina and the US, the two largest destinations during … the age of mass migration. Prior cross-sectional work finds that Italians had faster assimilation in Argentina, but it is … better economic outcomes in Argentina, and this advantage was unlikely to be due to selection. Migration path dependence can …

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Speculative Attacks and Models of Balance-of-Payments Crises

Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Bhandari, Jagdeep S.; Flood, … - 2021

This paper reviews recent developments in the theoretical and empirical analysis of balance-of-payments crises. A simple analytical model highlighting the process leading to such crises is first developed. The basic framework is then extended to deal with a variety of issues, such as:...

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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth

Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008

We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...

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Productivity and Machinery Investment : A Long Run Look 1870-1980

DeLong, J. Bradford - 2010

Over the past century the long-run growth of six economies shows a strong association between investment in machinery and economic growth that holds both within and across nations and periods. A similar strong association holds for the post-world War II period for a broader cross section of...

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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

Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2014

This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...

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