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Anaerobic Digestion as a Renewable Energy Source and Waste Management Technology : What Must Be Done for this Technology to Realize Success in the United States?

Klinkner, Blake - 2014

Anaerobic digestion technology uses microorganisms to consume waste and produce methane gas, which serves as a source of clean renewable energy. Although anaerobic digestion is widely used for both purposes throughout the rest of the world, it is rarely applied in the United States. This Article...

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First cabin fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826 - 1914

Dupont, Brandon; Keeling, Drew; Weiss, Thomas - In: Research in economic history : an annual compilation of … 33 (2017), pp. 19-63

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Variability in overseas travel by Americans, 1820 - 2000

Dupont, Brandon; Weiss, Thomas - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 7 (2013) 3, pp. 319-339

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The Role of Natural Gas in the Clean Power Plan

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2017

This article overviews the role that natural gas has played over time in the United States. It identifies and surveys five key historical roles that natural gas has served: (1) as an early competitor for lighting, (2) as a nuisance byproduct in oil production, (3) as a heating and appliance...

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Rust Buckets : How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security

Grabow, Colin - 2019

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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The American Invasion of Europe: The Long Term Rise in Overseas Travel, 1820-2000

Weiss, Thomas; Dupont, Brandon; Gandhi, Alka - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Tourism today is an activity of substantial economic importance worldwide, and has been for some time. Tourism is also …'s establishing special accounts on travel and tourism. In this paper we investigate the long term rise in overseas travel by … as mass tourism. We document this rise by compiling a long term series on overseas travel, and describe the changes in …

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Viking's 'Semantic Gaps' : Law and the Political Economy of Convergence in the EU

Lindseth, Peter L. - 2017

This chapter is part of a forthcoming edited volume exploring alternative approaches and readings of decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) within their political, economic and legal contexts. This contribution focuses on the Viking judgment of December 2007, which, together with the...

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Economic policy uncertainty shocks and U.S. overseas travel

Payne, James E.; Topcu, Mert; Hajille, Massomeh; … - In: The International trade journal 35 (2021) 1, pp. 115-122

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Canada's experience with trade policy

Charbonneau, Karyne; De Munnik, Daniel; Murphy, Laura - 2018

This paper compiles the contemporary view on three major Canadian-led trade policies that have marked Canada's economic history since Confederation: the National Policy (1879), the Canada-US Agreement on Automotive Products (Auto Pact, 1965) and the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA, 1989,...

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Why aren't people leaving Janesville? Industry persistence, trade shocks, and mobility

Ottinger, Sebastian; Poyker, Michael - 2022

This paper quantifies the extent to which the U.S. manufacturing labor market is characterized by employer market power and how such market power has changed over time. We find that the vast majority of U.S. manufacturing plants operate in a monopsonistic environment and, at least since the...

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