The demand for critical minerals is rising in support of the low-carbon energy transition, as well as global economic growth. Despite its hostile environment, the Arctic is a region with historic and existing mineral production. This paper assesses the potential of the Arctic to make a...

This article presents an estimation of a stochastic frontier model using a translogarithmic production function to identify the impact of production factors - labor and capital - along with CO2 emissions and technical progress on the value added of the manufacturing sector in North American...

This document is part of a series presenting information and lessons learned on policy approaches at national, regional or local level supporting a just transition to a climate-neutral economy. The Just Transition Platform (JTP) assists EU Member States and regions to unlock the support in this...

This document is part of a series presenting information and lessons learned on policy approaches at national, regional or local level supporting a just transition to a climate-neutral economy. The Just Transition Platform (JTP) assists EU Member States and regions to unlock the support in this...

Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....

Background: Pressure is growing in North America for heavy-duty, long-haul trucking to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ultimately to zero. With freight volumes rising, improvement depends on zero-emissions technologies, e.g., battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell electric...

We quantify cross-border effects of the recent climate mitigation policies introduced in Canada and the U.S., using the global general equilibrium model IMF-ENV. Notably, with the substantial emission reductions from Canada's carbon tax-led mitigation policies and the U.S.' Inflation Reduction...

This study explores what lessons can be learned from the experience of North American cities with respect to the development of new opportunities for export-oriented production that are compatible with a high quality of life in metropolitan regions. To this end, six case studies on North...

This article analyses the integration of economic history into economics using a unique dataset containing 11,143 articles written by 919 economic historians and published between 1980 and 2019 in leading journals; we also analyzed the authors’ biographical information. Using a probit...

The 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India was a watershed for the Sikh community in India. Hundreds of thousands of Sikhs left India to settle in Canada, UK, USA and Australia. These NRI Sikhs now want to carve out Punjab as an independent country called Khalistan. Yet these desires do not have sanction...

Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In this paper I present new data on the voyage times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the...

The evolution of the space economy is attracting more attention, as space products and services expand their presence in the daily work of public authorities and lives of citizens. In parallel, the emergence of new space systems, as well as public and private investment in space activities, have...

This research investigates the burgeoning peer-to-peer (P2P) economy, exemplified by platforms such as Airbnb, and its implications within the North American context. The study focuses on understanding the repercussions of Airbnb announcements on capital markets, concentrating specifically on...

Studies of the determinants of emigration from Europe from 1850 to 1913 include the gains to migrants but often neglect the costs. One component of those costs is earnings forgone on the voyage. In this paper I present new data on the voyage times for emigrants from the UK traveling to the...

Major developments in technology with geopolitical implications since the updating of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) through the US-Canada-Mexico Agreement (USMCA) put the agreement in a new context, magnifying the significance of provisions on governance of the digital economy,...

Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat für ein "soziales Massen-Experiment der Telearbeit" gesorgt, wie eine OECDStudie es formulierte. Denn die Anteile der Erwerbstätigen, die von zuhause arbeiten, stiegen weltweit rapide an. Auch die Anteile der Menschen mit Behinderungen stiegen an, allerdings nicht so...

The economic history of the United States is that of Europeans and their institutions. Indigenous nations are absent. This absence is due partly to lack of data but in large measure to a perception that Indigenous communities have contributed little to US growth. This paper argues that this...

This article analyzes the role of trade and financial integration, productive specialization and monetary policies in the synchronization of business cycles in North America from a long-run perspective. For this purpose, we estimate seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) models and Granger...

Metal raw materials are essential for industrial production. Global metal markets have changed considerably since the start of the twenty-first century, China being the most influential driver of this change. With China's economic rise, metal demand has skyrocketed, and global production shares...

On February 24-25, 2006 an international workshop on “Regional and International Currency Arrangements” was held in Vienna. It was co-sponsored by the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bank of Greece, and jointly organized by Eduard Hochreiter and George Tavlas. Academic economists and...

This is an empirical study based on a large-scale database of North American and Global organizations. The is the first study that has included more than 70,000 and 1,00,000 observations from North American and global firms to measure the impacts of financial leverage and return on investment...

This is an empirical study based on a large-scale database of North American and Global organizations. The is the first study that has included more than 70,000 and 1,00,000 observations from North American and Global firms respectively to measure the impacts of financial leverage and return on...

Since Daniel Steele’s 1975 seminal publication on schedule nervousness, academic researchers and corporate operations alike have deepened and expanded related research, both with direct intent to examine schedule nervousness (a.k.a. variation, volatility, or instability) or tangentially in...

In this article, we suggest that the geography of battery electric vehicle (BEV) production is influenced by factors such as agglomeration economics and economies of scale that also underlie the location of internal combustion engine vehicle production. With several dozen vehicle assembly plants...

This article analyzes the role of trade and financial integration, productive specialization and monetary policies in the synchronization of business cycles in North America from a long-run perspective. For this purpose, we estimate seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) models and Granger...

Volatile and persistent real exchange rates are observed not only in aggregate series but also in the individual good level data. Kehoe and Midrigan (2007) recently showed that, under a standard assumption on nominal price stickiness, empirical frequencies of micro price adjustment cannot...

Throughout history, Europe and North America have experienced intense and long-lasting droughts with large impacts on society and ecosystem such as the recent drought 2018/2019 and historical drought 1540 in Europe, or the US Dust Bowl of the 1930s. To increase resilience and develop adaptation...