Sigga Benediktsdottir,Soha Ahmed
Sigga Benediktsdottir
Global debt has grown to record levels. Government debt, corporate debt and household debt around the world rose to a high of 350% of world gross domestic product in 2022. The systemic risk that has built up during the extended period of lo...
Beijing Blue: Impact of the 2008 Olympic Games and 2014 APEC Summit on Air Quality [0.03%]
北京的蓝天：2008年奥运会和2014APEC会议对空气质量的影响
Lirong Liu,Asli Ogunc
Lirong Liu
This paper examines the effects of interventions to reduce air pollution during two international events on air quality in Beijing and its neighbor cities. Air quality data were gathered from China's Ministry of Environmental Protection, me...
Charles F Beauchamp,Michelle Bednarz Beauchamp
Charles F Beauchamp
Edwin M Truman
Edwin M Truman
The special drawing right (SDR) is issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The SDR has the potential to strengthen dramatically the international monetary system. Established in 1969 and allocated twice during its first decade, the...
Effects of Deflation and Macroeconomic Shocks on Leisure Spending in the Pre-War Era: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1890-1940 [0.03%]
战前时期通货紧缩和宏观经济冲击对休闲消费的影响：来自1890-1940年职业棒球的证据
Ran Tao,Richard C K Burdekin,David Berri
Ran Tao
Pre-war baseball attendance data afford a unique opportunity to assess how leisure spending fared not only through deflation but also after such shocks as the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the 1929 Wall Street Crash. Long-run analysis via a vecto...
William D Craighead
William D Craighead
This paper examines two types of preference shocks, shocks to the disutility of working and to the demand for goods relative to services, in an otherwise standard New Keynesian model. Existing literature has primarily focused on productivit...
Transitioning Economic Statuses of Appalachian Counties during COVID-19 [0.03%]
新冠肺炎期间阿巴拉契亚地区 counties 经济地位的变化
Ruohan Wu
Ruohan Wu
In the past decade, the Appalachian economy in the United States was scarcely discussed in the literature. No studies were devoted to local economic development after the outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease in 2019. This paper fills the lit...
Hakan Yilmazkuday
Hakan Yilmazkuday
This paper investigates the spillover effects of United States monetary policy on exchange rates of 11 emerging markets and 12 advanced economies during the pre-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) period of 2019 versus the COVID-19 period o...
Hotel Revenue Convergence: Evidence Across Star Hotels in Chinese Provinces [0.03%]
中国省份中星级酒店收入的趋同性：证据来自中国省份中的星级酒店
Nicholas Apergis,Chi Keung Lau
Nicholas Apergis
This paper analyses, for the first time, potential convergence patterns of hotel revenues across provinces in China. Through the club clustering methodology, the analysis uses a unique dataset of all hotels across all Chinese provinces. The...
Methodological Individualism: Still a Useful Methodology for the Social Sciences? [0.03%]
方法论个人主义：还是社会科学的有用方法论吗？
Reinhard Neck
Reinhard Neck
This paper explains the role of methodological individualism as a methodology for the social sciences by briefly discussing its forerunners in economics and sociology, especially in the works of Carl Menger and Max Weber, followed by some c...