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Thriving in a Global Economy : The Truth About U.S. Manufacturing and Trade
Ikenson, Daniel J. - 2007
Reports of the death of U.S. manufacturing have been greatly exaggerated. Since the depth of the manufacturing recession in 2002, the sector as a whole has experienced robust and sustained output, revenue, and profit growth. The year 2006 was a record year for output, revenues, profits, profit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221882
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Reform Options for the Estate Tax System : Targeting Unearned Income, Testimony Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This testimony makes three main points. First, inheritances tend to exacerbate existing economic disparities and may be the most important barrier to intergenerational economic mobility. These tendencies are most pronounced at the top of the income distribution. While inherited income is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014045314
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Damming trans-boundary rivers : a welfare analysis of conflict and cooperation
Zeng, Yuyu; Houba, Harold; Dinar, Ariel; Marence, Miroslav - 2016
projects and their externalities. We demonstrate our approach for the Mekong River incorporating expert hydrological knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556226
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Group selection : the quest for social preferences
Salomonsson, Marcus - 2009
formation, and reproductive externalities. -- Altruism ; spite ; externalities ; conformity ; fixation ; signalling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811816
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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010
exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide … the two typologies of actors. -- Foreign Direct Investments ; Environmental Negative Externalities ; Structural Changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746858
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The role and evolution of central authorities
Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999
In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re-commitment devices suchas contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In alocal interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011302150
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Contracting Externalities and Mandatory Menus in the U.S. Corporate Bankruptcy Code
Bernardo, Antonio E. - 2015
distress ex-post. If fire-sale liquidation imposes negative externalities on their peers, then firms can be collectively better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034519
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Externalities and subsidization of higher education : conference paper
Winter, Stefan; Pfitztner, Alexander - 2013
positive externalities. Without subsidization, so the story reads, there would be an underinvestment in higher education. This … paper shortly reviews theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence on externalities. It is found that evidence on … positive externalities is quite limited. What is more, evidence on negative externalities of higher education has been mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338372
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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What causes industry agglomeration? : Evidence from coagglomeration patterns
Ellison, Glenn; Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R. - 2007
1997 to compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to … construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1 …
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