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Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939 : A Statistical History
Richardson, Gary - 2011
Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on bankruptcies by branch of business during the 1890s. This essay reconstructs that series, links it to its successors, and discusses how it can be used for economic analysis
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Can the Covid Bailouts Save the Economy?
Elenev, Vadim - 2020
The covid-19 crisis has led to a sharp deterioration in firm and bank balance sheets. The government has responded with a massive intervention in corporate credit markets. We study equilibrium dynamics of macroeconomic quantities and prices, and how they are affected by government policy. The...
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U.S. Job Flows and the China Shock
Asquith, Brian - 2017
International trade exposure affects job creation and destruction along the intensive margin (job flows due to expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the...
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Do Airlines in Chapter 11 Harm Their Rivals? Bankruptcy and Pricing Behavior in U.S. Airline Markets
Borenstein, Severin; Rose, Nancy L. - 2021
The behavior of firms in financial distress has attracted considerable academic and policy interest in recent years. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued that airlines in financial distress, particularly those...
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Adjusting to Trade Policy : Evidence from U.S. Antidumping Duties on Vietnamese Catfish
Brambilla, Irene - 2013
In 2003, after claims of dumping, the U.S. imposed heavy tariffs on imports of catfish from Vietnam. As a result, Vietnamese exports of catfish to the U.S. market sharply declined. Using a panel data of Vietnamese households, we explore the responses of catfish producers in the Mekong delta...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753317
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Bankruptcy and Investment : Evidence from Changes in Marital Property Laws in the U.S. South, 1840-1850
Koudijs, Peter - 2016
married women's property from seizure in the case of insolvency, amending the common law default which vested a wife …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999467
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. And Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
Belley, Philippe - 2011
attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National … income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and … generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth …
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Tax Aspects of Policy Towards Aging Populations : Canada and the United States
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2011
Canada and the United States. The simulation model determines the perfect foresight transition path of an economy in which … handling changes in demographics and fiscal policies, the model can be run for closed or open economies.In comparing Canada … interest rates obtained from the U.S. simulations are then used in the Canadian simulations. In the Canada simulations, Canada …
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Why Have Private Saving Rates in the United States and Canada Diverged?
Summers, Lawrence H. - 2007
paper discusses the results of an exceptionally good natural experiment that has been provided by Canada and the U.S. over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777309
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Push and Pull : Disability Insurance, Regional Labor Markets, and Benefit Generosity in Canada and the United States
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2017
in Canada. We empirically assess these trends by measuring the strength of the ‘push' from weak labor markets versus the … the growth path observed in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956375