Shake Hands or Shake Apart? Pre-war Global Trade and Currency Blocs--the role of the Japanese Empire [PDF]
Despite world-wide bloc economies after the Depression, Japan had a tight relationship with the British Commonwealth and created tight connections with the Sterling and the Gold blocs in the late 1930s. The world-wide bloc economies did not isolate Japan.
Toshihiro Okubo
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What does the 1930s’ experience tell us about the future of the Eurozone? [PDF]
, 2013 If the Eurozone follows the precedent of the 1930s, it will not survive. The attractions of escaping from the gold standard then were massive and they point to a strategy of devalue and default for today’s crisis countries.
Crafts, N. F. R.
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How Likely is an Economic Depression?
International Journal of Economics and Management Studies, 2020 This paper uses a panel vector-autoregressive (VAR) process with different distributional assumptions to forecast GDP contraction severities and identify the likelihood of a depression threshold event across main Latin American countries. We compare these results to similar hypothetical events for U.S., U.K., France, and Canada.
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Hope Walks: The Impact of Clubfoot Treatment on Human Flourishing in Ethiopia
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children born with severe congenital conditions in low‐income countries rank among the most disadvantaged among the global ultra‐poor. We study the impact of clubfoot and its treatment across multiple dimensions of human flourishing on data collected from 564 children in Ethiopia.
Bruce Wydick +2 more
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Using Rasch analysis to form plausible health states amenable to valuation: the development of CORE-6D from CORE-OM in order to elicit preferences for common mental health problems [PDF]
, 2011 Purpose: To describe a new approach for deriving a preference-based index from a condition specific measure that uses Rasch analysis to develop health states.
A Tennant +33 more
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Trials, 2011 Background Several studies have showed that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) have suitable skills to undergo cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
Blizard Robert +7 more
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Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper reports the first large‐scale longitudinal links between one of the least known dimensions of wellbeing—hope—and long‐term outcomes in a range of life arenas. Hope has agentic properties which are relevant to people's future outcomes. Following 25,000 randomly sampled Australian adults over a period of 14 years from 2007 to 2021 (N >
Carol Graham, Redzo Mujcic
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Harvard meets the crisis: U.S. fiscal policy in the 1930s and the political economy of Lauchlin B. Currie, Jacob Viner, John H. Williams and Harry D. White [PDF]
The paper aims to describe the contribution of four Harvard economists to the interpretation of the Great Depression and the policy decision making from 1933 to 1938. Lauchlin B. Currie, Jacob Viner, John H. Williams, Harry D.
Michele Alacevich +2 more
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Wages, productivity, and work intensity in the Great Depression [PDF]
, 2008 We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantlydetermined by forces on firms' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity combined to ...
Darby, J., Hart, R.A.
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The General Theory as 'Depression Economics'? Financial Instability and Crises in Keynes’s Monetary Thought [PDF]
, 2020 Jörg Bibow
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