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The Rise of Cloud Computing : Minding Your P’s, Q’s and K’s
Byrne, David - 2018
Cloud computing--computing done on an off-site network of resources accessed through the Internet--is revolutionizing how computing services are used. However, because cloud is so new and it largely is an intermediate input to other industries, it is difficult to track in the U.S. statistical...
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Real-Time Inequality
Blanchet, Thomas; Saez, Emmanuel; Zucman, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper constructs high-frequency and timely income distributions for the United States. We develop a methodology to combine the information contained in high-frequency public data sources--including monthly household and employment surveys, quarterly censuses of employment and wages, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334446
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Ruggedness : The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at terrain ruggedness, we are able to estimate the importance of these two channels. Because rugged terrain hinders...
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows
Saffie, Felipe - 2020
liberalization in Hungary, a policy reform that led to capital inflows. We show that firms in capital intensive industries expand, as …-sector, heterogeneous firm model with multiple sectors of an economy transitioning to its steady-state. We simulate a capital account … of long-term financial openness of the economy. Larger liberalizations trigger long-run debt pushing the country to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481566
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COVID-19 and SMEs : A 2021 "Time Bomb"?
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper assesses the prospects of a 2021 time bomb in SME failures triggered by the generous support policies enacted during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Policies implemented in 2020, on their own, do not create a 2021 "time-bomb" for SMEs. Rather, business failures and policy costs remain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482634
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Ownership and Wages : Estimating Public-Private and Foreign-Domestic Differentials using LEED from Hungary, 1986-2003
Earle, John S. - 2007
employer-employee data (LEED) from Hungary containing 1.35mln worker-year observations for 21,238 firms from 1986 to 2003. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465658
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Theft and Taxes
Desai, Mihir A. - 2004
This paper analyzes the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance. We show that the characteristics of a taxation system affect the extraction of private benefits by company insiders. A higher tax rate increases the amount of income insiders divert and thus worsens governance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467710
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Inflation Targeting in Transition Countries : Experience and Prospects
Jonas, Jiri - 2003
Hungary. While the examined countries have missed inflation targets often by a large margin, they nevertheless progressed well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469031
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Macroeconomic Policy and Institutions During the Transition to European Union Membership
Branson, William H. - 1998
membership (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia). A Multi-Annual Fiscal Adjustment Strategy (MAFAS) and a Pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472253