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Schopf, Mark; Ritter, Hendrik - 2012

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Aid unpredictability and economic growth in Kenya

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The economics of attribute-based regulation : theory and evidence from fuel-economy standards

Ito, Koichiro; Sallee, James M. - 2015

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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a Shapley decomposition

Bargain, Olivier - 2009

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....

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Ireland's European crisis : staying solvent in the Eurozone

McCarthy, Colm - 2012

A popular narrative amongst European policymakers is that Eurozone members facing problems in the bond market are paying the price for past budgetary excess. Fiscal consolidation in these countries is seen as the principal remedy for the crisis. It is clear however that Ireland's problems derive...

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The 1960 tsunami in Hawaii : long term consequences of costal disaster

Lynham, John; Noy, Ilan; Page, Jonathan - 2012

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Great recession, slow recovery and muted fiscal policies in the US

Albonico, Alice; Tirelli, Patrizio; Paccagnini, Alessia - 2016

This paper reconsiders the role of macroeconomic shocks and policies in determining the Great Recession and the subsequent recovery in the US. The Great Recession was mainly caused by a large demand shock and by the ZLB on the interest rate policy. In contrast with previous findings, the...

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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory...

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Macroeconomic evaluation of labor market reform in Germany

Krebs, Tom; Scheffel, Martin - 2012

In 2005 the German government implemented the so-called Hartz IV reform, which amounted to a complete overhaul of the … effects of the Hartz IV reform. We calibrate the model economy to German data before the reform and then use the calibrated … model economy to simulate the effects of Hartz IV. In our baseline calibration, we find that the reform has reduced the long …

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Internal versus external growth in industries with scale economies : a computational model of optimal merger policy

Mermelstein, Ben; Nocke, Volker; Satterthwaite, Mark Allen - 2014

We study optimal merger policy in a dynamic model in which the presence of scale economies implies that firms can reduce costs through either internal investment in build- ing capital or through mergers. The model, which we solve computationally, allows firms to invest or propose mergers...

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