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- 1From:After Dinner Conversation: Philosophy - Ethics Short Story MagazineGeoffrey Hart “In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.”—James Buchanan and W. Craig Stubblebine The library rolled heavily into town,...
- 2From:Journal of Private Enterprise (Vol. 37, Issue 3)Both standard economic and public choice approaches to epidemiology ignore the role individuals play in disease prevention. Whereas the standard economic approach recognizes that people respond to changing prevalence...
- 3From:The EconomistCan firms be made accountable for their carbon emissions? S TRETCHING AS FAR back as the Middle Ages, businessmen have tried to build up fabulous wealth then save their souls by giving much of it away. Francesco...
- 4From:Women's Health Weekly2021 JUN 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Investigators publish new report on pregnancy and childbirth. According to news originating from the University of Heidelberg by...
- 5From:Reason (Vol. 53, Issue 2)ONE OF THE most important things economists can do in a pandemic is not forget what we know. We know that central planners don't have enough information and insight about the lives and activities of 330 million people to...
- 6From:Feedstuffs (Vol. 92, Issue 7)SCIENTISTS at Nanyang Technological University (NTU)Singapore and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) have found that people who hold negative opinions of genetically modified (GM) food are likely to...
- 7From:Women's Health Weekly2019 OCT 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Women's Health Weekly -- Current study results on Environmental Population Studies have been published. According to news reporting from Philadelphia,...
- 8From:IMF Working Papers
International Fiscal-financial Spillovers: The Effect of Fiscal Shocks on Cross-border Bank Lending.
This paper sheds new light on the degree of international fiscal-financial spillovers by investigating the effect of domestic fiscal policies on cross-border bank lending. By estimating the dynamic response of U.S.... - 9From:IMF Working PapersCo-movement (synchronicity) in inflation rates among a set of 13 emerging and developing countries in Asia is shown to be strongest for the food component, partly due to common rainfall shocks--a result which the paper...
- 10From:IMF Working PapersGrowing international integration in trade and finance can challenge the measurement of external accounts. This paper presents a unified conceptual framework for identifying sources of mismeasurement of foreign...
- 11From:IMF Working PapersWe examine the spillover effects between sovereigns and banks in a model with a heterogeneous banking system. An increase in sovereign's default risk affects financial intermediaries through two channels in this model....
- 12From:IMF Working PapersWe estimate the revenue implications of a Destination Based Cash Flow Tax (DBCFT) for 80 countries. On a global average, DBCFT revenues under unchanged tax rates would remain similar to the existing corporate income tax...
- 13From:IMF Working PapersThis paper examines real and financial linkages between Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries. Growth spillovers from Saudi Arabia to Bahrain are found to be sizeable and statistically significant, but those to other GCC...
- 14From:IMF Working PapersWe present estimates of welfare by country for 2007 and 2014 using the methodology of Jones and Klenow (2016) which incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality and inequality, and we extend the methodology to include...
- 15From:The EconomistLOUD conversation in a train carriage that makes concentration impossible for fellow-passengers. A farmer spraying weedkiller that destroys his neighbour's crop. Motorists whose idling cars spew fumes into the air,...
- 16From:The Economist (Vol. 424, Issue 9054)Arthur Pigou thought that taxes could solve a common market failure. The fourth brief in our series on big economic ideas LOUD conversation in a train carriage that makes concentration impossible for...
- 17From:IMF Working PapersWe study the optimal foreign exchange (FX) intervention policy in response to a positive terms of trade shock and associated Dutch disease episode in a small open economy model. We find that during a Dutch disease...
- 18From:IMF Working PapersAnecdotal evidence suggests the existence of specific choke points in the global trade network revealed especially after natural disasters (e.g. hard drive components and Thailand flooding, Japanese auto components...
- 19From:Public Utilities Fortnightly (1994) (Vol. 155, Issue 3)"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problem just with potatoes." --A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams The electric grid has been described as the most complex machine ever. The National...
- 20From:Logistics Management (Vol. 36, Issue 3)Cost-benefit analysis is needed to examine laws, regulations or fees imposed on business. However, it seems that supporters of cost-benefit analysis are interested in keeping costs down only for their constituencies,...