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Cigarette Excise Taxation : The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking
Chaloupka, Frank J, IV. - 2010
The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...
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Detecting Illegal Arms Trade
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2007
Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...
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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …
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Illuminating the Effects of the US-China Tariff War on China's Economy
Chor, Davin; Li, Bingjing - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How much has the US-China tariff war impacted economic outcomes in China? We address this question using high-frequency night lights data, together with measures of the trade exposure of fine grid locations constructed from Chinese firms' geo-coordinates. Exploiting within-grid variation over...
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Long-term effects of the Inca Road
Franco, Ana Paula; Galiani, Sebastián; Lavado, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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Propogation of Shocks in a High-Inflation Economy : Israel, 1980-85
Leiderman, Leonardo - 1986
-inflation economy. Do one-time inflationary shocks give rise to long-term persistence, or inertia? Do balance of payments' shocks …
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The Economy of Israel
Fischer, Stanley - 1983
The paper opens with a description of the salient features of the Israeli economy. These consist of a large government … indexation of both wages and long term financial commitments. A descriptive model of the economy is then presented, which … includes the particular asset menu of the Israeli economy, and its properties examined. Finally,the rrodel is used in analyzing …
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The Structure of Economic News
Bybee, Leland - 2020
We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text …
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Mauritius : African Success Story
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2010
What explains the success of Mauritius, a top performer among African countries? It has mostly followed growth-enhancing policies, which can in turn be attributed to sound institutions. But from where did the institutions come? Mauritius chose well around the time of independence in 1968, for...
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A Factor Analysis of Bond Risk Premia
Ludvigson, Sydney C. - 2009
macro economy. Using a panel of 131 monthly macroeconomic time series for the sample 1964:1-2007:12, we estimate 8 static …
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