The goal of this empirical project is to test the validity of three economic models - The General Monetary, The Purchasing Power Parity and The Interest Rate Parity models in Turkey - basing on quarterly data for the period 1975 - 1999. The project takes into account the serious economic shocks...

We argue for the resurrection of an old idea: electricity use as an indicator of U.S. economic activity. Our analysis relies on associations - the 40-year correlation between growth rates in real GDP and electricity use can be as high as 89% - and intuition. Electricity use and economic...

"The Steelworkers' Retirement Security System investigates how labor politics sustained rust belt jobs through the 1990s by creating interdependent financial commitment involving pensions and company investments. The book then goes on to adapt these commitments for the post-industrial economy to...