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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
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Can Severe Fiscal Contractions be Expansionary? Tales of Two Small European Countries
Giavazzi, Francesco - 1990
According to conventional wisdom, a fiscal consolidation is likely to contract real aggregate demand. It has often been argued, however, that this conclusion is misleading as it neglects the role of expectations of future policy: if the fiscal consolidation is read by the private sector as a...
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Happiness Adaptation to Income beyond "Basic Needs"
Tella, Rafael Di - 2008
We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre - 2006
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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Business environment and firm entry : evidence from international data
Klapper, Leora - 2004
"Using a comprehensive database of firms in Western and Eastern Europe, we study how the business environment in a …
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Inequality in Mortality between Black and White Americans by Age, Place, and Cause, and in Comparison to Europe, 1990-2018
Schwandt, Hannes; Currie, Janet M.; Bär, Marlies; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
comparison with Europe suggests that mortality rates of both Black and White Americans could fall much further across all ages …Inequalities in life expectancy are starker in the U.S. than in Europe. In 1990 White Americans and Europeans in rich …
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The Fractured-Land Hypothesis
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020
Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a dynamic model with granular geographical information in terms of …'s recurring political unification and Europe's persistent political fragmentation. The existence of a core region of high land …
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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics
Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2020
Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...
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A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility : China vs. Europe Revisited
Jia, Ruixue; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
opportunities to access elite status than Premodern Europe, for example via the civil service exam and the absence of hereditary … differences in the power structure of society: (1) the Ruler enjoyed weaker absolute power in Europe; (2) the People were more on … differences between Imperial China and Premodern Europe, as well as specific institutions such as the bureaucracy in China and the …
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The Governance and Performance of Research Universities : Evidence from Europe and the U.S
Aghion, Philippe - 2009
We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and competition for research funding. We show that university...
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