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The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions

Cutler, David M. (ed.) - 2000

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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers

Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … driven by physicians in surgical specialties. However, the duty hour reform appears to not have impacted birth outcomes. Thus …, we find that physicians tend to have worse birth outcomes than lawyers and, in this case, the work reform did little to …

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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...

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Stochastic Growth in the United States and Euro Area

Ireland, Peter N. - 2011

This paper estimates, using data from the United States and Euro Area, a two-country stochastic growth model in which both neutral and investment-specific technology shocks are nonstationary but cointegrated across economies. The results point to large and persistent swings in productivity, both...

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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US vs. Europe

Dolls, Mathias - 2010

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...

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Monetary policy in Europe vs the US : what explains the difference?

Uhlig, Harald - 2009

This paper compares monetary policy in the US and EMU during the last decade, employing an estimated hybrid New Keynesian cash-in-advance model, driven by five shocks. It appears that the difference between the two monetary policies between 1998 and 2006 is due to both surprises in productivity...

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Shocks, Structures or Monetary Policies? The Euro Area and US After 2001

Christiano, Lawrence - 2007

The US Federal Reserve cut interest rates more vigorously in the recent recession than the European Central Bank did. By comparison with the Fed, the ECB followed a more measured course of action. We use an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions to show that...

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Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More So

Janeba, Eckhard - 2002

parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …

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Post-Issue Patent "Quality Control" : A Comparative Study of US Patent Re-examinations and European Patent Oppositions

Graham, Stuart J. H. - 2002

We report the results of the first comparative study of the determinants and effects of patent oppositions in Europe and of re-examinations on corresponding patents issued in the United States. The analysis is based on a dataset consisting of matched EPO and US patents. Our analysis focuses on...

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How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets : A Study of Institutional Drift

Gutiérrez, Germán - 2018

Until the 1990's, US markets were more competitive than European markets. Today, European markets have lower concentration, lower excess profits, and lower regulatory barriers to entry. We document this surprising outcome and propose an explanation using a model of political support. Politicians...

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