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Large Fiscal Episodes and Sustainable Development : Some International Evidence
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Nguyen, Hien Thi Kim; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
sustainable development indicators (prosperity, resilience, and inclusivity). We provide country studies of Chile, Poland, South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510619
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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets : Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
Grafton, R. Quentin - 2010
used to identify strengths and limitations of water markets in: (1) Australia's Murray-Darling Basin; (2) Chile (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462452
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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions
Bagwell, Kyle - 1999
labor and environmental policies, and would lead to a significant loss of sovereignty for national governments. In this … labor and environmental standards, and that with relatively modest changes that grant governments more sovereignty, not less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471491
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National Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
Bagwell, Kyle - 2004
national sovereignty. In this paper, we propose answers to these two questions. We do so by first developing formal definitions … of national sovereignty that capture features of sovereignty emphasized in the political science literature. We then … utilize these definitions to describe the degree and nature of national sovereignty possessed by governments in a benchmark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468444
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"Make Us a King" : Anarchy, Predation, and the State
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1997
In order to enforce a collective choice to allocate resource to guarding against predators producers must subject themselves to the state's sovereign power to tax and to spend. But these sovereign powers in hand the state can exploit the producers by taxing and spending for its" own purposes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472524
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Perceived FOMC : The Making of Hawks, Doves and Swingers
Bordo, Michael D. - 2018
Narrative records in US newspapers reveal that about 70 percent of Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members who served during the last 55 years are perceived to have had persistent policy preferences over time, as either inflation-fighting hawks or growth-promoting doves. The rest are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453069
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Fertility Decline in the Civil Rights Era
Thompson, Owen - 2019
Large black-white fertility differences are a key feature of US demography, and are closely related to the broader dynamics of US racial inequality. To better understand the origins and determinants of racial fertility differentials, this paper examines fertility patterns in the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479995
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Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis
Alsan, Marcella - 2020
The respect for and protection of civil liberties are one of the fundamental roles of the state, and many consider civil liberties as sacred and "nontradable." Using cross-country representative surveys that cover 15 countries and over 370,000 respondents, we study whether and the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482192
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Gun Control after Heller : Litigating against Regulation
Cook, Philip J. - 2009
The "core right" established in D.C. vs. Heller (2008) is to keep an operable handgun in the home for self-defense purposes. If the Court extends this right to cover state and local jurisdictions, the result is likely to include the elimination of the most stringent existing regulations - such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463218
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Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination
Black, Sandra E. - 2002
While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper tests the hypothesis (based on Becker 1957) that increased competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469601