and the constant elasticity of substitution (CES)) as limit cases. This integrative approach incorporates both localized …

views have been based on interwar data. Recent research on British unemployment in the interwar period has proven expecially … controversial. This paper describes a new microdata set which can be used to study the operation of the British labour market and … the incidence of interwar unemployment. The data set is a sample of households drawn from the records of the New Survey of …

microdata. We look at both economic and statistical criteria in assessing various models, paying particular attention to the … flexibility of the economic model and the stochastic specification of unobservable factors. Using these criteria, a model is … selected from a sample of United Kingdom Family Expenditure Survey data. …

I search for a 'scale' effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and … link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …

the span between the start of trade talks and their conclusion. We use data from 88 regional trade agreements between 1988 …

. While that may have been a valid description of the data before the Second World War, it is no longer accurate. In the post … during cyclic downturns; if anything, they tend to fall. I document this new stylized fact with a wide panel of data, using a …

stability. Are there important differences between the economic outcomes of the two stable regimes? I examine a panel of annual … data from more than 170 countries from 2007 through 2012 and find that the macroeconomic and financial consequences of …

Heritage Foundation’s index of economic freedom. …