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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000
Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could have promoted growth during this period. The paper shows...
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Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization : Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
Jaworski, Taylor - 2020
We use new data on manufacturing in Canada to quantify the impact of globalization on the growth and composition of … experienced faster growth. Consistent with the literature on economic development in Canada, we find that scale economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481264
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Is Deflation depressing? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
Bordo, Michael D. - 2003
United States and Canada, 1870-1913. Both countries adhered to the international gold standard. This meant that the domestic … response to supply' shocks. For Canada the results are murkier. As in the U.S., the money supply shocks before 1896 are … shocks play a larger role in determining output behavior in Canada. The key conclusion of our analysis is that the simple …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469182
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Macroeconomic Factors and Antidumping Filings : Evidence from Four Countries
Knetter, Michael M. - 2000
This paper examines the relationship between antidumping filings and macroeconomic factors. We show that real exchange rate fluctuations affect the two criteria for dumping in opposite ways, making the overall effect on filings ambiguous in theory. Interestingly, no such ambiguity is evidenced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470721
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Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic Growth : The Canadian Disease
Morck, Randall K. - 1998
prices fell relative to those of comparable firms on the news that the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement would be ratified. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471999
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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces
Helliwell, John F. - 1996
The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the … seven adjectives, a feature more prevalent in the United States than in Canada, (black, white, Hispanic and Asian in the … United States; French, English and Ethnic in Canada) have lower levels of trust than those who consider themselves Canadians …
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Post-War Economic Growth in the Group-of-Five Countries : A New Analysis
Boskin, Michael J. - 1990
An inter-country aggregate production function is estimated using annual data for the post-war period drawn from the Group-of-Five (G-5) countries: France, West Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and United states. It is assumed that all countries have the same underlying production function, not in...
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The Sensitivity of Labor Demand Functions to Choice of Dependent Variable
Borjas, George J. - 1985
This paper investigates whether the parameters of labor demand functions are sensitive to alternative methods of estimation. The assumption that the production technology is of the Generalized Leontief type implies that the demand system can be estimated by analyzing cross-section differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477456
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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances
Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010
dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738354
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Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?
Jagannathan, Ravi - 2000
The folk wisdom is that competition reduces agency costs. We provide indirect empirical support for this view. We argue that the temptation to retain cash and engage in less productive activities is more severe for firms in less competitive industries. Hence an unanticipated increase in...
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