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Globalization, Markups and U.S. Welfare [PDF]
This paper is the first attempt to structurally estimate the impact of globalization on markups, and the effect of changing markups on welfare, in a monopolistic competition model.
David E. Weinstein, Robert C. Feenstra
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Use of superlatives in news articles on cardiac drugs
Background: Superlatives are exaggerated expressions that are often used by writers to inflate the benefit of drugs and medical devices. News articles containing superlatives have the potential to mislead consumers' and health care providers' perception ...
Vassar, Matt +4 more
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Nora Bartlett (1949–2016) was an inspirational teacher of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction at the Universities of Oxford and St Andrews. Among her many areas of expertise, she was a superlative reader of Jane Austen, whose novels she first ...
Stabler, Jane
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Steven Weinberg: A scientific life
Steven Weinberg was a giant of late 20th Century physics on whose shoulders we stand while groping for the science of the 21st Century. This article provides a too-brief summary of a selection of his many achievements – eight decades of superlative ...
C.P. Burgess, F. Quevedo
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A review of MXenes as emergent materials for dye removal from wastewater
MXenes have emerged as a superlative contestant water purification technology due to their two-dimensional multilayered structures, multifarious chemical composition, photocatalytic properties, and activated metallic hydroxide sites.
Sharaf, Mohammed A. +10 more
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The Reallocation of Compensation in Response to Health Insurance Premium Increases [PDF]
This paper examines how compensation packages change when health insurance premiums rise. We use data on employee choices within a single large firm with a flexible benefits plan; an increasingly common arrangement among medium and large firms.
Neeraj Sood +2 more
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Industrial Sector Input Demand Responsiveness and Policy Interventions [PDF]
In Pakistan, government intervention in the input market of the industrial sector is considerable. It regulates prices of virtually all energy and certain other non-labour inputs.
Muhammad Ali Chaudhary +3 more
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This thesis investigates how increased global mean temperatures on Earth, induced by the increase in the luminosity of the Sun as it ages, change the types of habitable environments on the planet at local scales over the next 3 Gyr.
O'Malley-James, Jack T.
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In the past two decades, lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have transformed the appearance of the world. Along with the ever-increasing production and usage are the tremendous number of retired batteries, which have created social and environmental issues ...
Ningning Song (614716) +9 more
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How Responsive is Poverty to Growth? A Regional Analysis of Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Indonesia, 1984-99 [PDF]
poverty, growth, inequality ...
Friedman, Jed
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