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Economic Production and Biodiversity in the United States

Liang, Yuanning; Rudik, Ivan J.; Zou, Eric Yongchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …

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Biodiversity Risk

Giglio, Stefano; Kuchler, Theresa; Stroebel, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …

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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules : A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan

McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000

This paper conducts counterfactual historical analysis of several monetary policy rules by contrasting actual settings of instrument variables with values that would have been specified by the rules in response to prevailing conditions. Of particular interest is whether major policy mistakes,...

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Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate

Abrego, Lisandro - 2000

Recent trade and wages literature focuses on whether trade or technology has been the major source of increases in wage inequality in OECD countries since the 1980s. In this literature, no attention has been paid to demand side considerations. Using a simple heterogeneous goods trade model of...

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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

Card, David - 2000

Although the college-high school wage gap for younger men has doubled over the past 30 years, the gap for older men has remained nearly constant. We argue that these shifts reflect changes in the relative supply of highly-educated workers across age groups. Cohorts born in the first half of the...

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Expectations Hypotheses Tests

Bekaert, Geert - 2000

We investigate the Expectations Hypotheses of the term structure of interest rates and of the foreign exchange market using vector autoregressive methods for the U.S. dollar, Deutsche mark, and British pound interest rates and exchange rates. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate...

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From Mill Town to Board Room : The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

Costa, Dora L. - 2000

In the twenty-first century many of the professional and high ranking managerial workers in the United States and in other OECD countries will be women. This change in women's social and economic status represents a dramatic break with the past, but one that can only be understood by looking to...

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An Economic Analysis of Transnational Bankruptcies

Bebchuk, Lucian Arye - 2000

This paper analyzes the effects of the legal rules governing transnational bankruptcies. We compare a regime of territoriality' -- in which assets are adjudicated by the jurisdiction in which they are located at the time of the bankruptcy -- with a regime of universality are adjudicated in a...

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How Do UK-Based Foreign Exchange Dealers Think Their Market Operates?

Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2000

This paper summarises the results of a survey of UK based foreign exchange dealers conducted in 1998. It addresses topics in three main areas: The microeconomic operation of the foreign exchange market; the beliefs of dealers regarding the importance, or otherwise, of macroeconomic fundamental...

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Well-Being Over Time in Britain and the USA

Blanchflower, David G. - 2000

The standard of living in the industrialized nations has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. Yet some observers wonder whether we are really getting any happier. This paper addresses that question by examining well-being data on 100,000 randomly sampled Americans and Britons from...

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