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Peronist Beliefs and Interventionist Policies

Tella, Rafael Di - 2010

We study the logic of Peronist interventionist polices and the beliefs that support them. Instead of a comprehensive approach, we focus on three elements. First, we study beliefs and values about the economic system present in Peron's speeches during the period 1943-55. Second, we study survey...

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What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?

Ohanian, Lee E. - 2009

Herbert Hoover. I develop a theory of labor market failure for the Depression based on Hoover's industrial labor program that provided industry with protection from unions in return for keeping nominal wages fixed. I find that the theory accounts for much of the depth of the Depression and for...

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The History and Politics of Corporate Ownership in Sweden

Hogfeldt, Peter - 2004

Not despite but because of persistent Social Democratic political influence since the Great Reversal in 1932 have a few families and banks controlled the largest listed firms in Sweden. The Social Democrats have de facto been the guarantor rather than the terminator of private capitalism since...

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Australian Growth : A California Perspective

McLean, Ian W. - 2001

Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics of long-run economic growth more generally. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising living standards for rapidly expanding populations. They are...

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Historical Macroeconomics and American Macroeconomic History

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1994

What can macroeconomic history offer macroeconomic theorists and macroeconometricians? Macroeconomic history offers more than longer time series or special `controlled experiments.' It suggests an historical definition of the economy, which has implications for macroeconometric methods. The...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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The Bail-In Problem : Systematic Goals, Ad Hoc Means

Eichengreen, Barry - 2000

, Ecuador, Romania and Ukraine. We show that because default and restructuring are so painful and costly, it is simply not time …

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Effect of an Abrupt Change in Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy on Adolescent Birth Rates in Ecuador, 2008–2017

Galárraga, Omar - 2019

policy change in Ecuador that abruptly reversed course for reproductive health services for adolescent women in 2014. In a … difference-in-differences analysis of age-specific birth rates in Ecuador's 221 cantons, we find that the abrupt policy change …

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International Trade and Earnings Inequality : A New Factor Content Approach

Adão, Rodrigo - 2020

unique administrative data from Ecuador, our approach yields measures of individual-level exposure to exports and imports …. We find that international trade raises earnings inequality in Ecuador, especially in the upper-half of the income … distribution. However, the drop in inequality experienced by Ecuador over the last decade would have been less pronounced in the …

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Poverty Alleviation and Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - 2009

Ecuador, where poor families are selected at random to receive a cash transfer that is equivalent to 7 percent of monthly …

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