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Estimating long-run incarceration rates for Australia, Canada, England & Wales, New Zealand and the United States

Leigh, Andrew - 2020

-run imprisonment rate for five English-speaking nations: Australia, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand and the United States. These …. In the late-nineteenth century, Australia had the highest incarceration rate of these nations. Today, the United States … has the highest rate. With the exception of Canada, incarceration rates have risen markedly since the mid-1980s. These new …

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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From the tallest to (one of) the fattest : the enigmatic fate of the American population in the 20th century

Komlos, John; Baur, Marieluise - 2003

Within the course of the 20th century the American population went through a metamorphosis from being the tallest in the world, to being among the most overweight. The American height advantage over Western and Northern Europeans was between 3 and 9 cm in the middle of the 19th century....

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Unemployment in the United States and in Europe : a contrast and the reasons

Solow, Robert M. - 2000

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The willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions : a comparison of the United States and Canada

Alberini, Anna; Krupnick, Alan J.; Cropper, Maureen L.; … - 2002

We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for …

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Pass-through of CO2 emission costs to hourly electricity prices in Germany

Hintermann, Beat - 2014

I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...

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How much carbon pricing is in countries' own interests? : the critical role of co-benefits

Parry, Ian W. H.; Veung, Chandara; Heine, Dirk - 2014

This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits. On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $ 57.5 per ton of CO2 (for year 2010), reflecting primarily...

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Reflections on the international coordination of carbon pricing

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2016

The efficiency effects of carbon pricing depend on how it impacts distortions in fossil fuel markets, most notably from local air pollution externalities. By offsetting these distortions, carbon pricing may generate significant net economic benefits, so it is in countries own interests to...

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Evaluating policies to implement the Paris agreement : a toolkit with application to China

Parry, Ian W. H.; Shang, Baoping; Vernon, Nate; … - 2016

This paper describes a model, implemented in an Excel spreadsheet, for evaluating a wide range of fiscal and regulatory instruments policymakers might consider for implementing their Paris mitigation pledges. Policies are evaluated against a range of metrics, including impacts on carbon dioxide...

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