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A potential sudden stop of energy imports from Russia: Effects on energy security and economic output in Germany and the EU

Berger, Eva M.; Bialek, Sylwia; Garnadt, Niklas; Grimm, … - 2022

The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine since 24 February 2022 has intensified the discussion of Europe's reliance on energy imports from Russia. A ban on Russian imports of oil, natural gas and coal has already been imposed by the United States, while the United Kingdom plans to cease...

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A potential sudden stop of energy imports from Russia: Effects on energy security and economic output in Germany and the EU

Berger, Eva M.; Bialek, Sylwia; Garnadt, Niklas; Grimm, … - 2022

[Introduction] The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine since 24 February 2022 has intensified the discussion of Europe's reliance on energy imports from Russia. A ban on Russian imports of oil, natural gas and coal has already been imposed by the United States, while the United Kingdom...

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Social media and mental health

Braghieri, Luca; Levy, Ro'ee; Makarin, Alexey - 2022

The diffusion of social media coincided with a worsening of mental health conditions among adolescents and young adults … in the United States, giving rise to speculation that social media might be detrimental to mental health. In this paper …, we provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of social media on mental health by leveraging a unique …

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Personal Gini coefficients

Davies, James B. - 2021

The Gini coefficient is based on the sum of pairwise income differences, which can be decomposed into separate sums for individuals. Differences vis-à-vis poorer people represent an individual's advantage, while those with respect to richer people constitute deprivation. Weighting deprivation...

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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006

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Are Household Surveys Like Tax Forms: Evidence from Income Underreporting of the Self-Employed

Hurst, Erik; Li, Geng; Pugsley, Benjamin - 2011

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Corruption and Firms

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Prem, Mounu - 2019

We estimate the causal real economic effects of a randomized anticorruption crackdown on local governments in Brazil over the period 2003-2014. After anti-corruption audits, municipalities experience an increase in economic activity concentrated in sectors most dependent on government...

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Importing Threat: The Electoral Logic of Economic Relief

Kim, Minju; Gulotty, Robert - 2019

Commercial policies are often only efficient insofar as those harmed can be compensated. In practice, compensatory measures fall far short of distributive harm. We rationalize the paucity of compensation as a strategic effort on the part of elected officials to withhold information about effects...

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EU-US trade structure and risks

Daly, Luke; Lawless, Martina - 2021

This paper maps out the trade relationship in goods between the two largest trading blocs in the global economy - the EU and US. We use detailed product category information to provide an in-depth description of current trade flows between the two markets, with a particular focus on how Irish-US...

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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change: The canonical model revisited

Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021

The canonical supply{demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely in uential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...

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