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Cover Crops, Drought, Yield and Risk : an Analysis of U.S. Soybean Production

Dong, Fengxia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Besides a variety of production and environmental benefits, cover cropping has been advocated as a mean to increase resilience to drought. We explored factors influencing farmer's adoption of cover crops and examined the effects of cover crops on soybean yield and its risk using USDA's 2018 ARMS...

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Sustainability and its Measurement

Heal, Geoffrey - 2011

I present a non-technical high-level review the concept of sustainability and the various approaches to quantifying it …

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Small Changes, Big Impact : Nudging Employees Toward Sustainable Behaviors

Cappellucci, Laura; Ha, Lan; Honig, Jeremy; Knittel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We designed and conducted three randomized control trials in partnership with a large biopharmaceutical company operating over 160 plasma donation centers, with the aim of promoting sustainable behaviors in a workplace setting. Specifically, we focused on reducing operational errors that led to...

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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability

Gluzmann, Pablo - 2018

was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …

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What is a Sustainable Public Debt?

D'Erasmo, Pablo - 2015

traditional approach to evaluate debt sustainability, and examine three alternative approaches that provide useful econometric and … model-simulation tools to analyze debt sustainability. The first approach is Bohn's non-structural empirical framework based … three approaches to analyze debt sustainability in the United States and Europe after the recent surge in public debt …

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A Surplus of Ambition : Can Europe Rely on Large Primary Surpluses to Solve its Debt Problem?

Eichengreen, Barry - 2014

of as much as 5 percent of GDP for as long as 10 years in order to maintain debt sustainability and bring their debt …

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Crunch Time : Fiscal Crises and the Role of Monetary Policy

Greenlaw, David - 2013

Countries with high debt loads are vulnerable to an adverse feedback loop in which doubts by lenders lead to higher sovereign interest rates which in turn make the debt problems more severe. We analyze the recent experience of advanced economies using both econometric methods and case studies...

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Fiscal Stability of High-Debt Nations under Volatile Economic Conditions

Hall, Robert E. - 2013

Using a recursive empirical model of the real interest rate, GDP growth, and the primary government deficit in the U.S., I solve for the ergodic distribution of the debt/GDP ratio. If such a distribution exists, the government is satisfying its intertemporal budget constraint. One key finding is...

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A Model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM) : Safety Traps and Economic Policy

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2013

The global economy has a chronic shortage of safe assets which lies behind many recent macroeconomic imbalances. This paper provides a simple model of the Safe Asset Mechanism (SAM), its recessionary safety traps, and its policy antidotes. Safety traps share many common features with...

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On the Solvency of Nations : Cross-Country Evidence on the Dynamics of External Adjustment

Durdu, C. Bora - 2012

We test the hypothesis that net foreign asset positions are consistent with external solvency and examine the dynamics of external adjustment using data for 50 countries over the 1970-2006 period. Our analysis adapts Bohn's (2007) error-correction reaction function approach--which tests for a...

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