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How "Original Sin" Was Overcome : The Evolution of External Debt Denominated in Domestic Currencies in the United States and the British Dominions

Bordo, Michael D.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Redish, Angela - 2021

several former colonies of Great Britain: the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. We trace out …

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Business Cycles in International Historical Perspective

Basu, Susanto; Taylor, Alan M. - 2021

This paper examines business cycles theoretically and empirically, with a quantitative study based on experience over the long run and in a cross section of countries. Several major questions in business cycle theory are explored. Theoretical concerns indicate that the properties of business...

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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota

Clay, Karen - 2017

This paper constructs new estimates of the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs from long-distance movement of petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities –...

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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Commodity Currencies and Monetary Policy

Devereux, Michael B. - 2018

mechanism and test the over-identifying restrictions for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three countries …

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Remote Work Across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada …

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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023

The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research,...

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Designing a Carbon Tax to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2021

This article describes a revenue and distributionally neutral approach to reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that uses a carbon tax. The revenue from the carbon tax is used to finance an environmental earned income tax credit designed to be distributionally neutral. The credit is linked to...

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom

Wilson, Karen - 2021

; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … "production" approach inherent in the Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is … institutional sectors of the economy. In Canada the supply and use framework is used to determine the level of GDP but not all of …

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