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Economic Conditions And U.S. National Security In The 1930s And Today
August 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
This paper comments on the experience of the U.S. economy in the 1930s, its lessons for managing the current economic downturn, and the relation of U.S. economic conditions to the future national...
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Recent Developments In The Econometrics Of Program Evaluation
August 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
Many empirical questions in economics and other social sciences depend on causal effects of programs or policy interventions. In the last two decades much research has been done on the econometric...
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The Integrated Financial And Real System Of National Accounts For The United States: Does It Presage The Financial Crisis?
January 1, 2009 12:00am PST
The initial implementation of the System of National Accounts (1993) for the United States by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Federal Reserve Board has two significant advantages for...
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Personnel Economics
October 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In this review of the personnel economics literature, the authors introduce key topics of personnel economics, focus on some relatively new findings that have emerged since prior reviews of some...
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Economics And Ideology: Causal Evidence Of The Impact Of Economic Conditions On Support For Redistribution And Other Ballot Proposals
April 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Using California ballot proposition returns and exogenous shifts to labor demand, the authors provide the first large-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy...
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Profit Sharing Between Governments And Multinationals In Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence From A Firm-level Panel
August 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The "Fairness" of negotiations between countries and resource extracting firms is subject to many accusations and counter-accusations and may be argued, in many instances, to impact the subsequent...
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Physical Activity: Economic And Policy Factors
June 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
While much research has focused on the costs of obesity and economic factors that drive obesity growth, little economic research has examined the factors that contribute to obesity - physical...
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Did Economics Cause World War II?
December 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Historians have long recognized the role of economic resources and organization in determining the outcome of World War II: the Nazi economy lacked the economic resources and organization to...
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Economic And Political Inequality In Development: The Case Of Cundinamarca, Colombia
June 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic...
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Show Me The Money: Does Shared Capitalism Share The Wealth?
April 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the effect of a variety of employee ownership programs on employees' holdings of their employers' stock, their earnings and their wealth. Two major datasets are employed: the...
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Power Laws In Economics And Finance
September 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
A power law is the form taken by a large number of surprising empirical regularities in economics and finance. This paper surveys well-documented empirical power laws concerning income and wealth,...
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The Economics And Psychology Of Personality Traits
February 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. The authors examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle....
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Uncertainty And Economic Activity: Evidence From Business Survey Data
June 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
Using partly confidential business survey data from the U.S. and Germany in structural VARs, the authors find that positive innovations to business uncertainty lead to prolonged declines in...
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The Economic Consequences Of Legal Origins
November 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules...
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Psychology And Economics: Evidence From The Field
September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT
The research in Psychology and Economics (a.k.a. Behavioral Economics) suggests that individuals deviate from the standard model in three respects: non-standard preferences; non-standard beliefs;...
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Energy, The Environment, And Technological Change
April 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes...
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Institutional Comparative Statics
June 1, 2011 12:00am PDT
Why was the Black Death followed by the decline of serfdom in Western Europe but its' intensification in Eastern Europe? What explains why involvement in Atlantic trade in the Early Modern period...
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Preventing A National Debt Explosion
October 1, 2010 12:00am PDT
The projected path of the U.S. national debt is the major challenge facing American economic policy. Without changes in tax and spending rules, the national debt will rise from 62 percent of GDP...
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Climate Change And Economic Growth: Evidence From The Last Half Century
June 1, 2008 12:00am PDT
This paper uses annual variation in temperature and precipitation over the past 50 years to examine the impact of climatic changes on economic activity throughout the world. The authors find three...
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Testing For The Economic Impact Of The U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity Across The Colonies Versus Across The States, 1748-1811
August 1, 2009 12:00am PDT
The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they were British colonies exercised considerable real and monetary autonomy over...
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