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Trumps Importzölle auf Stahl und Aluminium
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 06, pp. 30-37
zunächst auf alle Handelspartner mit Ausnahme von Kanada, Mexiko und Australien anzuwenden sind. Eine Analyse von Handelsdaten … der Jahre 2005 bis 2016 zeigt, dass keine starke und plötzliche Zunahme der Importe der USA zu verzeichnen war und dass … verbündete Länder für den Großteil der Importe der USA verantwortlich zeichnen. Die Begründung der Zölle mit einer plötzlichen …
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What affects MFP in the long-run? Evidence from Canadian industries
Leung, Danny; Zheng, Yi - 2008
In this paper we explore variables that may have an impact on multifactor productivity (MFP) in the long-run using the KLEMS database for Canada. We estimate a dynamic heterogeneous panel error-correction model of twelve 2-digit level industries. Variables investigated include ICT capital,...
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income in the U.S. and Canada: What role for financial aid policy?
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...
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The role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the great recession
Wibe, Jacob - 2012
The great recession of 2008-2009 resulted in a large fall in trade relative to output. Real trade fell roughly three times more than real GDP in the U.S. and Mexico, and by a factor of five in Canada. The decline in trade and output was particularly large in sectors with high levels of...
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An international comparison of lifetime inequalilty: How Continental Europe resembles North America
Bowlus, Audra J.; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2011
We compare earnings inequality and mobility across the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the U.K. during the late 1990s. A flexible model of earnings dynamics that isolates positional mobility within a stable earnings distribution is estimated. Earnings trajectories are then simulated, and...
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Post-secondary attendance by parental income: Comparing the US and Canada
Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance - 2010
This paper makes three contributions to the literature on educational attainment gaps by family income. First, we conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on post-secondary (PS) attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from...
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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Can structural small open economy models account for the influence of foreign disturbances?
Justiniano, Alejandro; Preston, Bruce - 2009
This paper demonstrates that an estimated, structural, small open-economy model of the Canadian economy cannot account for the substantial influence of foreign-sourced disturbances identified in numerous reduced-form studies. The benchmark model assumes uncorrelated shocks across countries and...
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Asymmetry and Spillover Effects in the North American Equity Markets
Pollard, Stephen K.; Sapra, Sunil K.; Canarella, Giorgio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-12, pp. 1-52
In this paper we examine the issue of asymmetry in the return and volatility spillover effects from the US equity market into the Canadian and Mexican equity markets. We model the conditional volatility of the returns in each of the three markets using the asymmetric power model of Ding, Granger...
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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000
The first part of this paper outlines the concept of democratic accountability of central banks, and compares the legal accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve System). In the second part, we present a theory...
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