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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 …
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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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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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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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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
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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...
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