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Well Worth Saving How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership

Fishback Price V., Rose Jonathan, Snowden Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9780226082448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2013
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 10 tables

The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling...

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NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics 2012 Volume 9

Giavazzi Francesco, West Kenneth

ISBN: PB: 9780226053271, ISBN: HB: 9780226053134, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm

The distinguished International Seminar on Macroeconomics has met annually in Europe for over thirty years. The topics covered in this year's volume fall into four categories: exchange rates, global business cycles, the financial crisis, and unemploy...

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Housing and the Financial Crisis

Glaeser Edward L., Sinai Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780226030586, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2013
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 125 line drawings, 68 tables

Conventional wisdom held that housing prices couldn't fall. But the spectacular boom and bust of the housing market during the first decade of the twenty-first century and millions of foreclosed homeowners have made it clear that housing is no differ...

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NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2012 Volume 27

Acemoglu Daron, Parker Jonathan, Woodford Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226052809, ISBN: HB: 9780226052779, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2013
448 pp., 23x15 cm

The twenty-seventh edition of the "NBER Macroeconomics Annual" continues a tradition of featuring theoretical and empirical contributions that shed light on central issues in contemporary macroeconomics, pushing the frontiers of macroeconomic researc...

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Political Arithmetic Simon Kuznets and the Empirical Tradition in Economics

Fogel Robert William, Fogel Enid M., Guglielmo Mark, Grotte Nathaniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226256610, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2013
168 pp., 23x15 cm

We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn't the case – economists simply didn't have the nec...

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Innovation Policy and the Economy 2012 Volume 13

Lerner Josh, Stern Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226053585, ISBN: HB: 9780226053448, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2013
176 pp., 23x15 cm

There is considerable debate regarding the implications of technological change for economic policy and the appropriate policies and programs regarding research, innovation, and the commercialization of new technology. This debate has intensified as...

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Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 26

Brown Jeffrey R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226923451, ISBN: HB: 9780226923444, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, August 2012
160 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

There is no question that the US is facing significant fiscal challenges".Tax Policy and the Economy" research papers make valuable contributions to our understanding of the economic effects of alternative approaches. The papers collected in Volume 2...

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Criminology

Economics of Crime Lessons For and From Latin America

Di Tella Rafael, Edwards Sebastian, Schargrodsky Ernesto

ISBN: PB: 9780226791852, ISBN: HB: 9780226153742, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 95 figures, 106 tables, 1 halftone

Crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world, creating climates of fear and lawlessness in several countries. Despite this situation, there has been a lack of systematic effort to study crime in the region or the effectiveness of p...

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Public Health

Investigations in the Economics of Aging

Wise David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226903132, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, June 2012
504 pp., 23x15 cm, 80 figures, 86 tables

One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in...

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China's Growing Role in World Trade

Feenstra Robert C., Wei Shang-Jin

ISBN: PB: 9780226239743, ISBN: HB: 9780226239712, University of Chicago Press, NBER – National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2012
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 126 tables, 104 line illus.

In less than three decades, China has grown from playing a negligible role in world trade to being one of the world's largest exporters, a substantial importer of raw materials, intermediate outputs, and other goods, and both a recipient and source o...

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