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Entrepreneurship and the deregulation of banking: how strong is the evidence? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper presents evidence that banking deregulation led to decreases in entrepreneurship in some U.S. regions, and to increases in others.
Howard J. Wall
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Tax competition and tax harmonization with evasion [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine a two-jurisdiction tax competition environment where local governments can only imperfectly monitor where agents pay taxes and risk-averse individuals my choose to cross borders to pay lower taxes in a neighboring location.
Nestor Gandelman   +1 more
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Breastfeeding, Malta 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Although the scientific and economic benefits in support of breastfeeding over formula feeds is overwhelming, Malta retains one of the lowest rates for breastfeeding in almost all developed and several under-developed countries.
Attard Montalto, Simon
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Explaining the evolution of pension structure and job tenure [PDF]

open access: yes
Average and expected job tenure of workers has fallen significantly over the last two decades. Workers have also experienced a major shift in pension coverage.
Leora Friedberg, Michael T. Owyang
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Stochastic capital depreciation and the comovement of hours and productivity [PDF]

open access: yes
An unresolved question concerning stochastic depreciation shocks is whether they have to be unrealistically large to have any useful role in a dynamic general equilibrium model economy, as Ambler and Paquet (1994) first suggested.
Andreas M. Fischer   +2 more
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"The Medium" Fringe Festival 2002, November 1-3, 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This is the concert program of the Boston University Opera Institute performance of "The Medium" with music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, running Friday, November 1 and Saturday, November 2, 2002 at 6:30 p.m.
School of Music, Boston University
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Inefficient education spending in public school districts: a case for consolidation [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper estimates scale economies for Arkansas school districts. Large economies of scale exist in teacher salary and supply costs, as well as total costs.
Marvin E. Dodson, III, Thomas A. Garrett
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Is inflation persistence intrinsic in industrial economies? [PDF]

open access: yes
We apply both classical and Bayesian econometric methods to characterize the dynamic behavior of inflation for twelve industrial countries over the period 1984-2003, using four different price indices for each country.
Andrew T. Levin, Jeremy M. Piger
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