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The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in every sense of the term a monumental scholarly accomplishment.... the volume sets,..., a new standard for the writing of monetary history, one that requires the explanation of historical developments in terms

This classification, to be used in a new inventory of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the United States, is intended to describe ecological taxa, arrange them in a system useful to resource managers, furnish units for mapping, and provide uniformity of concepts and terms. Wetlands are defined

We estimate the relative influence of trade versus technology on wages in a "large country" setting, where technological change affects product prices. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technological change is measured by expenditures on high-technology capital such as computers. In our initial specification, we find that computers explain about 35 percent of the increase in the relative wage of nonproduction workers, while outsourcing explains at most 15 percent. In an alternative specification, outsourcing explains about 40 percent of the increase in the relative nonproduction wage, whereas computer expenditures can explain 75 percent of this increase.

The United States input-output (I-O) accounts for the GTAP version 7 data base are derived from the data in the USAGE-ITC applied general equilibrium model with

In spite of decades of intense research directed toward understanding the climates and ecology of the Great Basin (western United States) during the past 10,000 years, the responses of mammals to the extreme aridity of the Middle Holocene ( c.

We estimate a forward-looking monetary policy reaction function for the postwar United States economy, before and after Volcker’s appointment as Fed Chairman in 1979. Our results point to substantial differences in the estimated rule across periods. In particular, interest rate policy

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to entry mode choice, one focussing on the cultural distance between countries, the other on attitudes towards uncertainty avoidance. Using a multinomial logit model and controlling for other effects, the hypotheses are tested by analyzing data on 228 entries into the United States market by acquisition

and SEDAP and SSHRCC for financial support. The Education Premium in Canada and the United States It is well known that in the United States the education premium- the ratio of the earnings of university graduates to the earnings of high school graduates- has risen sharply in the last twenty years