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How Elastic is the Government's Demand for Weapons?
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1989
We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
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Local Instruments, Global Extrapolation : External Validity of the Labor Supply-Fertility Local Average Treatment Effect
Bisbee, James - 2015
We investigate whether local average treatment effects (LATE's) can be extrapolated to new settings. We extend the analysis and framework of Dehejia, Pop-Eleches, and Samii (2015), which examines the external validity of the Angrist-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two...
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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley - 2000
conditions, external factors, and reform strategies. This paper summarizes the macroeconomic performance of the transition … economies. We first review the initial conditions confronting these economies, the reform strategy that was proposed, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471103
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Economic Reforms and Labor Markets : Policy Issues and Lessons from Chile
Edwards, Sebastian - 2000
This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … concentrate on the reform to job security, on the decentralization of the wage bargaining process, and on the reduction in payroll …' to U.S' levels. We argue that the reduction of payroll taxes (within the context of the social security reform), and the …
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Why Have Economic Reforms in Mexico Not Generated Growth?
Kehoe, Timothy J. - 2010
Following its opening to trade and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico's economic growth has been modest at best, particularly in comparison with that of China. Comparing these countries and reviewing the literature, we conclude that the relation between openness and growth is not a...
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Why Isn't Mexico Rich?
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment, achieving fiscal discipline, and privatizing state owned enterprises. Despite these efforts, the country's economic growth has been lackluster, trailing that of many other...
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Financial Frictions and the Persistence of History : A Quantitative Exploration
Buera, Francisco J. - 2010
dynamics. Following a reform that triggers efficient reallocation of resources, our model economy with financial frictions …
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Adjustment of State Owned and Foreign-Funded Enterprises in China to Economic Reforms,1980s-2007 : a logistic smooth transition regression (LSTR) approach
Aizenman, Joshua - 2009
This paper applies a logistic smooth transition regression approach to the estimation of a homogenous aggregate value added production function of the State Owned (SOE) and Foreign-Funded Enterprises (FFE) in China, 1980s-2007. The transition associated with the economic reforms in China is...
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The Value of Making Commitments Externally : Evidence from WTO Accessions
Tang, Man-Keung - 2008
This paper studies the value of external commitment to policy reforms in the case of WTO/GATT accessions. The accessions often entail reforms that go beyond narrowly defined trade liberalization, and have to overcome fierce resistance in the acceding countries, as reflected in protracted...
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The Euro and Structural Reforms
Alesina, Alberto - 2008
This paper investigates whether or not the adoption of the Euro has facilitated the introduction of structural reforms, defined as deregulation in the product markets and liberalization and deregulation in the labor markets. After reviewing the theoretical arguments that may link the adoption of...
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