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Understanding the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. [PDF]
In the final article this quarter, Aubhik Khan wonders: What determines whether a manufacturing plant survives? Is it access to credit markets? Or does learning about plants' profitability over time determine survival?
Aubhik Khan
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The downtown parking syndrome: does curing the illness kill the patient? [PDF]
Consumers and businesses alike cite the lack of free parking as one of the major problems associated with working, playing, and shopping downtown. A shortage of parking spaces can also lead to higher prices for those parking slots available as well as ...
Richard Voith
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What test scores can and cannot tell us about the quality of our schools. [PDF]
"What Test Scores Can and Cannot Tell Us about the Quality of Our Schools," by Ted Crone, recognizes that how to best judge the quality of our schools is a thorny issue.
Theodore M. Crone
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Real business cycles: a legacy of countercyclical policies? [PDF]
If business cycles are caused mostly by changes in productivity, rather than by monetary and financial disturbances, what role do monetary and fiscal policies play?
Satyajit Chatterjee
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Has suburbanization diminished the importance of access to Center City? [PDF]
Nine years ago, the Business Review examined the role that access to Center City Philadelphia played in people's choices about where to live and how to commute.
Richard Voith
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Economia & Região, 2018 This paper studied the economic scenario and to investigate the hypothesis of per capita income convergence among the Municipalities of the Microregion of Cornélio Procópio, which is located on the north part of the State of Paraná, Brazil.
Geovani Aparecido de Oliveira David +1 more
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House prices and the quality of public schools: what are we buying? [PDF]
Do house prices reflect the quality of the local public schools? To what extent do school district policies determine how well students perform? How do such factors as neighborhood, family, and peers affect school quality and house prices?
Theodore M. Crone
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HUMAN CAPITAL AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: an analysis for Paraná
Economia & Região, 2018 This paper aims to analyze the relationship between human capital and economic growth for the State of Paraná from 2000 to 2010, using panel data. The regression to the State of Paraná and for most of the mesoregions suggests that human capital is ...
Jady Yumi Kuniwaki Silva +1 more
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Is the U.S. economy really growing too slowly? [PDF]
Has American economic progress slowed dramatically—or even stopped? Or are the statistics wrong: has the U.S. economy been experiencing strong growth, but our official measures fail to reflect it?
Leonard Nakamura
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The impact of immigration on American cities: an introduction to the issues [PDF]
In "The Impact of Immigration on American Cities: An Introduction to the Issues," Albert Saiz discusses immigration's impact on a receiving country's labor and housing markets, fiscal systems, and social interactions ...
Albert Saiz
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