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What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data
Cavallo, Alberto; Kryvtsov, Oleksiy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2021 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in shortages in nearly all sectors early in the pandemic. Over time, the composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629429
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International Innovation and Diffusion of Air Pollution Control Technologies : The Effects of NOX and SO2 Regulation in the US, Japan, and Germany
Popp, David - 2004
Using patent data from the United States, Japan, and Germany, this paper examines both the innovation and diffusion of …) standards, both Japan and Germany introduced stringent nitrogen dioxide (NOX) standards much earlier than the US. Nonetheless …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468050
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Monetary Policy in Japan, Germany and the United States : Does One Size Fit All?
Chinn, Menzie D. - 1997
We study the post-war evidence for Japan to see if the same specification for both the economy and the monetary policy … rule is useful for understanding Japan's economy and monetary policy. A recurrent theme in the literature on Japanese … that, with minor adjustments, the same specification provides a useful framework for understanding monetary policy in Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472722
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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis
Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, and other major advanced economies have similar levels of credibility (albeit far from full credibility); however, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421202
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The World's Rust Belts : The Heterogeneous Effects of Deindustrialization on 1,993 Cities in Six Countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447269
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Affiliates of U.S. and Japanese Multinationals in East Asian Production and Trade
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Since 1977, and in some cases starting before that, most East Asian countries' export patterns in manufacturing have been transformed from industry distributions typical of developing countries to distributions more like those of advanced countries. The process of change in most cases started...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470927
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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules : A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471025
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471148
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Size and Growth of Japanese Plants in the United States
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
Using a unique database on all Japanese manufacturing plants in the United States, we examine the relationship between plant size and growth for these foreign-owned plants. These plants average sizes are three times larger than comparable U.S. plants and experienced 30 percent growth from 1987...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471515
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Old Age Financial Readiness in Asian Countries vs. the United States : The Case of Japan and the Republic of Korea
Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We pursue a cross-country comparison of relative financial readiness of older households in Japan and the Republic of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814424