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Filippos Papasavvas
Aug 19
How have GPTs affected the US economy?
Jovanovic et al (2005) analyzed the impact of two general-purpose technologies (GPTs) on the US economy: electricity and information...
Filippos Papasavvas
Jul 4, 2023
Does multi-market contact drive up US hospital prices?
Schmitt (2017) found evidence that multi-market contact in the US hospital industry has led to higher hospital prices. This suggests that...
Filippos Papasavvas
May 28, 2023
On the relationship between output and unemployment
Knotek (2007) examined whether the statistical relationship of real output growth with the unemployment rate, as captured by Arthur...
Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 13, 2023
The role of foreign powers in the Greek Civil War
Iatrides and Rizopoulos (2000) argue that the communists’ defeat in the Greek Civil War (1942-1949) was generally the result of the...
Filippos Papasavvas
Aug 31, 2022
World food regimes: a short history
Xu (2019) distinguishes between three historic world food regimes: the period when the UK was the world’s major food importer...
Jing-Yuan Deng
Apr 24, 2022
Bombed into Communists: US war in Vietnam
Dell and Querubin’s paper 'Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention' (2016) finds evidence from the Vietnam War that a strategy aimed...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Apr 3, 2022
Dominant Currency Paradigm - Do bilateral exchange rates matter for trade?
In their article, Gopinath et al. (2020) found evidence that global trade volumes and prices are significantly driven by the value of the...
Sean Hays
Feb 5, 2022
On the origins of (de)regulation
Starting in the 1970s, neoliberalism and deregulation began to rear their head, leading to the rollback of government under Thatcherism...
Ioannis Milioritsas
Feb 5, 2022
Have minimum wage increases raised US unemployment historically?
In their study, Cengiz et al. (2019) investigate whether changes in the US minimum wage from 1979 to 2016 affected the domestic...
Sean Hays
Feb 5, 2022
Equal pay for equal work? The American gender wage gap in the era of #MeToo
The gender wage gap still exists in the US, but when ‘explained’ factors (years of experience, education level, hours worked) are...
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