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Regulating in Pandemic : Evaluating Economic and Financial Policy Responses to the Coronavirus Crisis
Hafiz, Hiba - 2020
The United States is currently trying to manage a fast-moving public health crisis due to the coronavirus outbreak … provisions of H.R. 6201 (the “Families First Coronavirus Responses Act”) passed by the house on March 14, 2020, subject to … on March 18, 2020. Next, it analyzes the provisions of H.R. 748 (the “Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act …
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Der Staat in der Wirtschaft : Grundlagen der öffentlichen Finanzen im internationalen Kontext
Edling, Herbert - 2001
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The two approaches to money : debt, central banks, and functional finance
Mastromatteo, Giuseppe; Esposito, Lorenzo - 2015
The scientific reassessment of the economic role of the state after the crisis has renewed interest in Abba Lerner’s theory of functional finance (FF). A thorough discussion of this concept is helpful in reconsidering the debate on the nature of money and the origin of the business cycle and...
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Przyszłość finansów publicznych i bankowości
Marcinkowska, Monika (contributor) - 2014
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Public finances today : lessons learned and challenges ahead
Banca d’Italia Workshop on "Public Finances Today: … - 2015
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Forced Labour and Human Trafficking : Estimating the Profits
Belser, Patrick - 2011
This is an experimental assignment undertaken for the ILO to try to estimate the order of magnitude of the profits from forced labour and human trafficking. The paper's main finding is that global profits made from forced labourers exploited by private agents or enterprises could reach US$ 44.2...
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Bitcoin Myths and Facts
Harvey, Campbell R. - 2017
I will address eight common claims about bitcoin: 1. Physical bitcoins exist; 2. The founder of bitcoin is a person called Satoshi Nakamoto; 3. Bitcoin is mainly used for criminal activity; 4. A lack of security plagues bitcoin; 5. Mining is a waste of energy; 6. Bitcoin too small today to be an...
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Predicting Suicide Attacks : Integrating Spatial, Temporal and Social Features of Terrorist Attacks Targets
Perry, Walter; Berrebi, Claude; Brown, Ryan Andrew; … - 2020
This PDF document was made available from rand.org as a public service of the RAND Corporation. Set out to develop ways to predict what determines the targets of suicide attacks, using Israel as a sample, we created a database that coded for sociocultural, political, economic, and demographic...
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Predicting Worker Classification in the Gig Economy
Alarie, Benjamin; Gardhouse, Kathrin - 2022
Issues surrounding worker classification go back decades in the tax context. Given the rise of the gig-economy, these issues have resurfaced with urgency, with Uber and other gig-economy service providers making headlines for the past several years for allegedly misclassifying workers. The...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic improve global air quality? : new cross-national evidence on its unintended consequences
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh - 2020
Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...
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