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UNDERSTANDING LONG-TERM ENERGY USE AND CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS IN THE USA

Tol, Richard S.J.; Pacala, Stephen W.; Socolow, Robert H. - Forschungsstelle Nachhaltige Umweltentwicklung (ZMK), … - 2006

We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850 …

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Consumer Confidence and Elections

Hardouvelis, Gikas; Thomakos, Dimitrios - Department of Economics, University of Peloponnese - 2007

We investigate the behavior of consumer confidence around national elections in the EU-15 coun- tries during 1985:1-2007:3. Consumer con¯dence increases before the date of elections and falls subsequently by almost the same amount. It is able to predict the strength of the performance of the...

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Creating Markets for Air Pollution Control in Europe and the USA

Klaassen, Ger; Nentjes, Andries - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 10 (1997) 2, pp. 125-146

USA. European policies have mainly taken the form of bubbles and compensation or offset schemes. Emission trading has been … than tradable permit systems. By contrast, the sulphur allowance program in the USA has laid down the foundation for a … utility controls. Europe can learn from the USA that regular national permit markets could be installed, preferably for …

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Emigration and Regime Stability: Explaining the Persistence of Cuban Socialism

Hoffmann, Bert - German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) - 2005

The ‘Cuban safety-valve theory’ explains sustained survival of Cuban socialism in part through the high levels of emigration, following Hirschman’s model of ‘exit’ undermining ‘voice’. The article argues that this remains insufficient in two important ways. Taking a closer look at...

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Industry Origins of the American Productivity Resurgence

Jorgenson, Dale; Ho, Mun; Samuels, Jon; Stiroh, Kevin - In: Economic Systems Research 19 (2007) 3, pp. 229-252

This paper analyzes the industry origins of the American growth resurgence by examining output, input, and productivity growth of 85 component industries for the period 1960 to 2005. We use this detailed industry data to examine trends in particular industry groups such as those that produce...

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Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Publicâ€™s Role in Working for Equality

Satcher, David - eSocialSciences - 2007

The overarching goals should be to increase the quality of life and years of healthy life for all Americans and to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. This has been an ambitious undertaking, but there has been considerable progress. . African Americans and other racial and ethnic...

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Contemporary International and Domestic Banking Developments and the Emerging Challenges

V, Leeladhar - eSocialSciences - 2008

A broad overview, from the Indian perspective, of the factors underlying the credit market crisis in the west, the implications of the crisis for the financial sector, lessons learnt from it, the various suggestions made at different fora for pre-empting the recurrence of such events, the Indian...

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Free Trade Agreement : A Campaign of Deception

Lee, Nicole - eSocialSciences - 2008

The paper analyzes the impact of Colombia,s free trade with USA on the economies of US and Colombia. It also discuses … the relationship between USA and Colombia. …

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Spillovers, Linkages and Technical Change

Wolff, Edward - In: Economic Systems Research 9 (1997) 1, pp. 9-23

Using US input-output data for the period 1958-87, I find strong evidence that industry total factor productivity (TFP) growth is significantly related to the TFP performance of the supplying sectors, with an elasticity of almost 60%. R&D intensity is also found to be a significant determinant...

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Social capital, economic growth and regional development

Iyer, Sriya; Kitson, Michael; Toh, Bernard - In: Regional Studies 39 (2005) 8, pp. 1015-1040

000 individuals living in 40 communities, grouped into nine regions, in the USA. These data show remarkable diversity of social …

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