Turning Points in the Civil War: Views from the Greenback Market [PDF]
In early 1862, the United States government began issuing Greenbacks, a legal tender currency that was not convertible into gold. The government promised to redeem the Greenbacks in gold eventually, but speculators understood that the probability of ...
Harvey S. Rosen +2 more
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Can a Decadal Forecasting System Predict Temperature Extreme Indices? [PDF]
, 2013 Barriopedro +45 more
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Labor Income Indices Designed for Use in Contracts Promoting Income Risk Management [PDF]
Labor income indices are created for groupings of individuals, using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. People are grouped by a clustering algorithm based on an estimated transition matrix between jobs, by education level, and by skill ...
Robert J. Shiller, Ryan Schneider
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Design of telephone subscriber module [PDF]
, 2008 Bakalářská práce se zabývá problematikou analogových účastnických telefonních rozhraní v moderních telefonních ústřednách a možnostmi jejich využití např. ve VoIP branách.
Maule, Petr
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World Income Components: Measuring and Exploiting International Risk Sharing Opportunities [PDF]
We provide methods of decomposing the variance of world national incomes into components in such a way as to indicate the most important risk-sharing opportunities, and, therefore, the most important missing international risk markets to establish.
Robert J. Shiller, Stefano Athanasoulis
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Collusion over the Business Cycle [PDF]
We present a theory of collusive pricing in markets subject to business cycle fluctuations. In the business cycle model that we adopt, market demand alternates stochastically between fast-growth (boom) and slow-growth (recession) phases.
Kyle Bagwell, Robert W. Staiger
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The Economics of Prefunding Social Security and Medicare Benefits [PDF]
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the economics of prefunding benefits for the aged, focusing on Social Security but indicating some of the analogous magnitudes for prefunding Medicare Benefits.
Andrew Samwick, Martin Feldstein
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How Taxing is Corruption on International Investors? [PDF]
This paper studies the effect of corruption on foreign direct investment. The sample covers bilateral investment from fourteen source countries to forty-five host countries during 1990-91. There are three central findings.
Shang-Jin Wei
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Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania: Epidemiological Study, Diagnostic Issues, and Treatment Prospects. [PDF]
Genes (Basel)Zinchenko R +15 more
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The quality of guidelines for diabetic foot ulcers: A critical appraisal using the AGREE II instrument. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 Zhang P +6 more
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