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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838354
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Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War
Hall, George J. - 2002
belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787085
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International Transmission Under Bretton Woods
Stockman, Alan C. - 2021
This paper explores the main channels of international transmission of economic disturbances under the Bretton Woods System and presents evidence on the short-run international transmission of inflation under that system. There appears to have been little short-run international transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233746
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How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? A Historical and International Perspective
Piketty, Thomas - 2010
United Kingdom is similar to the US pattern. France had less progressive taxes than the US or UK in 1970 but has experienced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760747
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden and West Germany--Comparisons of Effective Tax Rates--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224427
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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964884
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2010
extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable …This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149831
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The Taxation of Income from Capital : A Comparative Study of the U.S., U.K., Sweden, and West Germany--The Theoretical Framework--
King, Mervyn; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226949
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Foreign Wars, Domestic Markets : England, 1793-1815
Jacks, David S. - 2010
This paper explores the means by which warfare influences domestic commodity markets. It is argued that England during the French Wars provides an ideal testing ground. Four categories of explanatory variables are taken as likely sources of documented changes in English commodity price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139748
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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012
overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103805