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This paper reexamines the Phillips and Beveridge curves to explain the inflation surge in the U.S. during the 2020s. We … almost exclusively through a drop in vacancies rather than an increase in unemployment. This feature matches the U … five other inflation surges over the past 111 years where the Beveridge threshold was breached. We define a Beveridge …
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We investigate the costs of transportation regulation using the example of agricultural markets in the United States. Using a large database of prices by state of agricultural commodities, we find that the coefficient of variation (as a measure of market integration between states) falls for...
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Since its inception, supporters of the Jones Act have claimed that the law is essential to U.S. national security. Although indefensible on economic grounds, Jones Act advocates argue that its restrictions promote the development of both a U.S. merchant marine and shipbuilding and repair...
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This paper is an empirical assessment of the comparative efficiency of governance structures in an environment marked by high uncertainty. We analyze the short-term impact of retail deregulation on the productive efficiency of electric utilities in the United States. We argue that there are...
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A sustainable energy system is key for addressing the world’s environmental and social challenges. The U.S is the second largest consumer of energy, with increased energy consumption in the previous half-century. To curb energy demand, it is essential to understand the relative price...
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Substitution of petroleum fuels with biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel has been shown to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These GHG reductions can be traded in the emerging carbon markets, and methodologies for quantifying and trading are still being developed. The main challenges in...
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We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass market good between 1909 and 1919. We argue that the answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States and its...
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Greenhouse gas reduction and energy consumption are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing countries, and policy makers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the indirect energy consumption both in the...
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How does improving access to the supply of energy affect regional specialization in manufacturing? We evaluate the long-run employment impacts of pipelines constructed by the U.S. government during World War II to transport oil and gas from the oil fields of the Southwest to wartime industrial...
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In Europe, high and persistent unemployment is usually attributed entirely to "labor market rigidity". The only remedy … unemployment in Europe: over-regulation and weakness of competition in good markets, and an excessively contractionary combination …
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