MIT Dept. of Economics Working Papers Series: Recent submissions

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    • The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing 

      Greenstone, Michael; List, John A.; Syverson, Chad (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-09-10)
      The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant ...

    • Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdepent World? 

      Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James; Verdier, Thierry (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-08-20)
      Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not ...

    • Fiscal Unions 

      Farhi, Emmanuel; Werning, Iván (Cambridge, MA: Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-07-31)
      We study cross-country insurance in a currency union with nominal price and wage rigidities. We provide two results that build the case for the creation of a fiscal union within a currency union. First, we show that, if ...