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ownership and expenses, levels and paths of health status, number of household members, and out-of -pocket medical expenditures …In this paper we document significantly steeper declines in nondurable expenditures in the UK compared to the US, in …
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The prospects for a revival of nuclear power were dim even before the partial reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear power has long been controversial because of concerns about nuclear accidents, proliferation risk, and the storage of spent fuel. These concerns are real and...
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Real and private-value assets--defined here as the sum of real estate, infrastructure, collectibles, and non-corporate business equity--is an investment class worth an estimated $85 trillion in the U.S. alone. Furthermore, private values can affect pricing in many other financial markets, such...
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over assets and who bears the costs and benefits of those decisions. They assign ownership, wealth, political influence … to land were broadly distributed, Americans could participate in capital markets using land as collateral. This ability …
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forced labor income as capital. The regional distribution of wealth and the effects of the Civil war appear very different if … capital accumulation. Among others, we find that counties with a higher share of enslaved property before the Civil War or …
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This paper revisits capital-skill complementarity and inequality, as in Krusell, Ohanian, Rios-Rull and Violante (KORV …. We find strong evidence for continued capital-skill complementarity in the most recent data, and that the model continues …
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obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self-financing …We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we …
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Stocks with recent past high idiosyncratic volatility have low future average returns around the world. Across 23 developed markets, the difference in average returns between the extreme quintile portfolios sorted on idiosyncratic volatility is -1.31% per month, after controlling for world...
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does …
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We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
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