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Excess Labor and the Business Cycle [PDF]

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This paper compares the Medoff-Fay estimates of labor hoarding during troughs, which are based on data from manufacturing plants, with aggregate estimates of excess labor on hand.The two sets of estimates seem consistent, which provides a strong argument
Ray C. Fair
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Mpox and the Ethics of Outbreak Management: Lessons for Future Public Health Crises

open access: yesDeveloping World Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mpox, first identified in captive monkeys in 1958 and recognized in humans by 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, was historically confined to sporadic zoonotic outbreaks in Central and West Africa. These outbreaks, often driven by rodent‐to‐human transmission in resource‐limited settings, reflect persistent systemic health disparities ...
Adetayo E. Obasa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The heterogeneous impact of European Central Bank asset price surprises on corporate liquidity demand

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Theories of corporate liquidity demand build on the notion that firms accumulate cash to safeguard their activities in the face of costly external finance. Monetary policy provides a clear source of exogenous variation in the external finance premium.
Benedicta Marzinotto
wiley   +1 more source

Pro‐Market Economic Reforms and Resource Curse: Do Initial Conditions Matter?

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The quality of economic institutions plays a crucial role in enhancing a country's economic performance, leading international organisations to recommend pro‐market institutional reforms as a strategy to support economic development. This paper investigates how the natural resource curse affects pro‐market reforms, analysing a sample of 90 ...
Isaac Amedanou, Kwamivi Mawuli Gomado
wiley   +1 more source

Why have the dynamics of labor productivity changed? [PDF]

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The strength of the nascent economic recovery--and of the labor market--will depend importantly on labor productivity. By itself, faster productivity growth contributes to faster output growth. At the same time, stronger productivity gains allow firms to
Willem Van Zandweghe
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China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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