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In der Wissenschaft wird zu Recht viel von den Daten der Volkszählung 2010/2011, dem ersten Zensus seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung, erwartet. Während die Volkszählung in den 80er Jahren in Westdeutschland noch hoch kontrovers war, gab es bislang kaum Streit um die jetzt anstehende...
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peacetime expansions and contractions in federal hiring. The predetermined occurrence and scale of the census offers an economic … experiment in the effects of temporary government hiring. This paper describes the construction of a data series on census hiring … in the United States since 1950 and also collects available data on census employment in England and Wales, Canada, Korea …
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This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in China by applying fractional integration and cointegration methods. These are more general than the standard methods based on the dichotomy between stationary...
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Since the efficiency of obtaining energy is decreasing, it is important to determine how the degradation in energy quality will influence society. Despite the rising importance of net energy, few quantitative studies have been conducted on the relationship between energy quality and quality of...
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A feature of modern globalization processes is their vulnerability to the volatility of short-term capital flows, which, combined with the growing volatility of commodity prices, have created serious difficulties for the economic policies of commodity-oriented countries. Therefore, the study of...
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economies (EMDEs), but this reflects their much larger population; adjusted for population, the advanced economies stand to be …
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There was a time when the Federal Reserve believed that honest money—i.e., a stable price level— was essential for achieving full employment. Today, retired Fed officials are recommending that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) target 3-percent inflation. They argue that a 3 percent...
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A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the stock market when disaster risk dominates, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility. The elasticity of the put-options price is one...
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