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Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carraro, Carlo - 2000

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A Tax on Output of the Polluting Industry is Not a Tax on Pollution : The Importance of Hitting the Target

Fullerton, Don - 1999

We explore the effects of environmental taxes that imprecisely target pollution. A review of actual policies indicates few (if any) examples of a true tax on pollution. More typically, environmental taxes target an input or output that is correlated with pollution. We construct a simple...

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Is Globalization Today Really Different than Globalization a Hunderd Years Ago?

Bordo, Michael D. - 1999

for the United States but also with reference to the wider world. We establish the outlines of international integration a … century ago and analyze the institutional and informational impediments that prevented the late nineteenth century world from … achieving the same degree of integration as today. We conclude that the world today is different: commercial and financial …

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Lending Booms, Reserves, and the Sustainability of Short-Term Debt : Inferences from the Pricing of Syndicated Bank Loans

Eichengreen, Barry - 1999

This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan-extension and pricing decisions as jointly determined. Compared to the bond market, our findings highlight the role of international banks in providing credit to smaller borrowers...

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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide

Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …

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The Anatomy of Financial Crises

Eichengreen, Barry - 1987

A financial crisis is a disturbance to financial markets. associated typically with falling asset prices and insolvency among debtors and intermediaries, which spreads through the financial system, disrupting the marketâ€™s capacity to allocate capital. In this paper we analyze the...

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Public Debt Through the Ages

Eichengreen, Barry - 2019

We consider public debt from a long-term historical perspective, showing how the purposes for which governments borrow have evolved over time. Periods when debt-to-GDP ratios rose explosively as a result of wars, depressions and financial crises also have a long history. Many of these episodes...

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Cursed Resources? Political Conditions and Oil Market Outcomes

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2010

understanding world oil markets …

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The Slide to Protectionism in the Great Depression : Who Succumbed and Why?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2009

The Great Depression was marked by a severe outbreak of protectionist trade policies. But contrary to the presumption that all countries scrambled to raise trade barriers, there was substantial cross-country variation in the movement to protectionism. Specifically, countries that remained on the...

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Cost Containment in Climate Change Policy : Alternative Approaches to Mitigating Price Volatility

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2009

Cap and trade systems are emerging as the front-running policy choice to address climate change concerns in many countries. One of the apparent attractions of this approach is the ability to achieve hard limits on emissions over a control period. The cost of achieving this certainty on emission...

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