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The Deficit-Reducing Potential of a Financial Speculation Tax [PDF]
While a number of commissions and organizations around Washington have produced plans for reducing the projected deficit in the decades ahead, most have not included a financial speculation tax (FST) in the mix.
Dean Baker
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A sore red eye with systemic involvement [PDF]
, 2010 The study of happiness has long been a playground for philosophical speculation. By lack of empirical measures of happiness, it was not possible to check propositions about the matter.
Lightman, SL +3 more
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About Crisis. A Short and Joyless Description [PDF]
Theoretical and Applied Economics, 2009 Crisis clearly distinguishes itself from the large mass of economic phenomena through its provocative force, which fuels theoretical discourse. The more harmful, the more generous the energies it deploys and consumes for explanatory and obstacle ...
Ion Pohoata
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Moneta e Credito, 2013 Dopo la fine del sistema di fede, di Bretton Woods in un regime di cambio liberamente fluttuante, e in particolare la completa politica di laissez-faire degli Stati Uniti dopo il 1980, è stata sostenuta da una letteratura vasta e influente - la ...
R. TAMBORINI
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Identifying the Signs of Currency Speculation in Hong Kong's Linked exchange Rate [PDF]
This paper identifies the ex ante factors of currency speculation based on the experience of Hong Kong’s three episodes in 1988, 1998 and 2007. The dynamic conditional correlation models are used to study the inter-temporal interactions among the Hang ...
Li, Kui-Wai
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Razionalità versus "chartism": conseguenze per la teoria dei cambi
Moneta e Credito, 2013 The aim of the work is to interpret recent topics of discussion related to the theory of exchange rates, taking into account the conclusions of the theoretical research on financial and currency markets. The author suggests that the setup of the analysis
P. VITALE
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Arrested Development: Theory and Evidence of Supply-Side Speculation in the Housing Market
Journal of Finance, 2018 This paper incorporates speculation into the standard supply-and-demand framework used to analyze housing booms and busts. Speculation reverses the common intuition that elastic housing supply attenuates housing booms.
Charles G. Nathanson, Eric Zwick
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The sharp peak-flat trough pattern and critical speculation
, 1998 We find empirically a characteristic sharp peak-flat trough pattern in a large set of commodity prices. We argue that the sharp peak structure reflects an endogenous inter-market organization, and that peaks may be seen as local ``singularities ...
Roehner, B. M., Sornette, D.
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Land speculation and conservation policy leakage in Brazil
Environmental Research Letters, 2019 The Brazilian Amazon and Cerrado biomes have been subject to strong pressure from agricultural expansion over the past two decades. A common claim is that the associated tree cover loss was partly driven by speculative land acquisition. In this paper, we
J. Miranda +3 more
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"US 'Quantitative Easing' Is Fracturing the Global Economy" [PDF]
The Federal Reserve's quantitative easing is presented as injecting $600 billion into "the economy." But instead of getting banks lending to Americans again—households and firms—the money is going abroad, through arbitrage interest-rate speculation ...
Michael Hudson
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