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The Lifting of the Oil Export Ban in the US and its Effects on the Oil Market
Kim, Sungjin - 2022
The US set an oil export ban after the Iranian crisis in the 1970s due to energy security issues. Since US oil production has been continuously diminishing, there had not been many issues until recently. However, after the hydraulic fracturing technology was introduced to development of shale in...
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The relative importance of labour market reforms to economic growth
Aiginger, Karl - 2003
Insufficiently flexible labour markets combined with high welfare costs are often thought to be the main cause of unsatisfactory growth in Europe. This paper uses the OECD data on regulation of the product and labour market to confirm the difference in the extent of regulation between US and...
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Climate change and economic activity : evidence from U.S. states
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022
We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...
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Determinants of urbanization
Hofman, Anett; Wan, Guangha - 2013
In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the … People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous … Urbanization Prospects, we use an instrumental variables approach to identify and analyze key urbanization determinants. We …
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Resource-richness and economic growth in contemporary U.S.
Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017
Between 1997 and 2014, US corn, soybean and cotton production almost fully converted to genetically modified crops. Starting around 2007, improved tight oil and shale gas technologies turned the declining US fossil fuel production into a booming industry. We study the effects of these two...
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Urban Sprawl, Oil, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Gonzalez, George - 2010
Beginning in the 1930s, the U.S. government employed urban sprawl to profitably absorb the country's industrial output (especially automobiles). The fact that the U.S. government could utilize urban sprawl in the context of the Great Depression to expand its market for consumer durables (goods...
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
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Quantifying optimal growth policy
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269804
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Quantifying optimal growth policy
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
This paper develops a comprehensive endogenous growth framework to determine the optimal mix of growth policies. The analysis is novel in that we capture important elements of the tax-transfer system and fully take into account transitional dynamics in our numerical analysis. Currently, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270040