Housing prices in major Chinese cities have been soaring since 2003. Some
economists believe that this represents a dangerous speculative bubble while others argue
that Chinese housing price inflation is a normal consequence ...
Service trade is more heavily dependent on communication than commodity trade because its production and consumption occur simultaneously. "Linguistic distance," a measure of how closely the majority languages of two nations ...
The United States has historically subsidized its farmers directly and indirectly
through a variety of different methods. In recent years, there has been evidence that
OECD agricultural subsidies are leading farmers in ...
In this paper we focus on the determinants of faculty salary levels at elite liberal arts colleges for specific years over the past decade. We address the role regional personal income per capita and endowment play in ...
Using the World Values Survey, we evaluate the differences in environmental preferences between the United States and two other global leaders, Western Europe and Canada, in order to discover whether there is evidence, at ...