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Defying Gravity : The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
Jacks, David S. - 2011
In the wake of the Great Depression, the Canadian government embarked on a stunning reversal in its commercial policy. A key element of its response was the promotion of intra-imperial trade at the Imperial Economic Conference of 1932. This paper addresses whether or not Canadian trade was able...
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512128
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy : Evidence from a Narrative Approach
Rojas, Diego - 2020
Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify innovations in changes in legal reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481235
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453833
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Household Credit as Stimulus? Evidence from Brazil
Garber, Gabriel; Mian, Atif; Ponticelli, Jacopo; Sufi, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
From 2011 to 2014, the Brazilian government conducted a heavily advertised major credit expansion program through government banks as part of its effort to stimulate the economy. Using administrative data on individual-level borrowing and spending, we find that the program led to a substantial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660064
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Risk Matters : The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2009
sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463773
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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program
Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2008
domestic oil production and develop alternative sources of energy. We examine the energy developments in Brazil as an important … experiment. Brazil has reduced its share of imported oil more than any other major economy in the world in the last 30 years …, from 70 percent in the 1970s to only 10 percent today. Brazil has largely achieved this goal by: (1) increasing domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464277
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To … one-third of the 25.9 log point fall in the variance of log earnings in Brazil since 1994. At the same time, the minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533380
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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium : A Local Labor Markets Approach
Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2015
methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization and find statistically significant but modest effects of liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457754
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457998