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Resource intensive production and aggregate economic performance
Keay, Ian - 2008
's energy, fishing, forestry, and mining industries. Direct contributions to intensive, or per capita performance are measured … the proportion of aggregate employment, the aggregate fixed capital stock, and G.N.P. that may be attributed to Canada … evidence, I argue that Canada's resource industries were making a substantial positive impact on aggregate economic performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290326
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Institutional Changes in Irkutsk Province : Forest Industry Example
Dayneko, Dennis V. - 2012
The purpose of this work is the study of the institutional transformation problem in the Forest industry of Irkutsk province, determination of the most prospective ways of reforming of the Forest industry in the context of local institutional structure transformation, determination and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206573
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Canada's resource economy in transition : the past, present, and future of Canadian staples industries
Howlett, Michael (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592291
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Incorporating Risk and Uncertainty in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Salci, Sener; Jenkins, Glenn - 2016
number of advanced economies (Australia, Canada, France, the UK, the US and the European Union) call for sensitivity analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015253304
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Losing on the home front? Battlefield casualties, media, and public support for foreign interventions
Fetzer, Thiemo; Souza, Pedro C. L.; Vanden Eynde, Oliver; … - 2024
How domestic constituents respond to signals of weakness in foreign wars remains an important question in international relations. This paper studies the impact of battlefield casualties and media coverage on public demand for war termination. To identify the effect of troop fatalities, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014554629
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2023
Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377132
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What Explains Cross-City Variation in Mortality During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic? Evidence from 438 U.S. Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019
Disparities in cross-city pandemic severity during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic remain poorly understood. This paper uses newly assembled historical data on annual mortality across 438 U.S. cities to explore the determinants of pandemic mortality. We assess the role of three broad factors: i)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005878
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Resource Intensive Production and Aggregate Economic Performance
Keay, Ian - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2008
's energy, fishing, forestry, and mining industries. Direct contributions to intensive, or per capita performance are measured … the proportion of aggregate employment, the aggregate fixed capital stock, and G.N.P. that may be attributed to Canada … evidence, I argue that Canada's resource industries were making a substantial positive impact on aggregate economic performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005653114
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Fracking Growth
Fetzer, Thiemo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010782160
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Fracking growth
Fetzer, Thiemo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126197