Agriculture economists who study the issue say they're not sure exactly what would happen if the U.S. trade embargo were lifted.
But economists who study the unintended consequences of tariffs conclude that even in this special case, tariffs do more harm than good.
Their long-term prospects were dim: economists who study the fortunes of immigrants say that education and knowledge of English are the predictors of success.
Economists billed the study as the first comprehensive look at the recession's effects on school funding in New Jersey and New York.
In a recent study economists at the OECD found that America does indeed do well on some measures, such as breast-cancer survival rates and cervical-cancer screening, compared with other rich countries.
The proof given is a study by economists Chong, La Porta, Lopez-de-Silanes, and Shleifer from 2012.
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This state of confusion is astonishing, considering that economists have transformed the study of firms' other pricing decisions almost into an exact science.
According to a recent study by economists at the International Monetary Fund, sterling's equilibrium value at the end of 1998 (when it actually bought DM2.77) was around DM2.45.
This bedrock free market principle was reaffirmed this month in the form of a new study from economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore examining state income tax rates.
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American lawyers are clearly reaping some kind of premium, and the economists behind the Brookings study carefully control for a host of factors including long hours, areas of specialisation, and inherent talent.
In a recent study, economists at the IMF analysed the respective impact of deficit reduction, global rebalancing and productivity-enhancing structural reforms on the growth prospects of big rich economies and found that by far the strongest positive effect came from structural reforms.
But most of the economists I talked to who study China say that China should be capable of maintaining this level of growth for quite some time to come.
For this study, the economists started with Ford, which resembles Chrysler in a lot of ways except that it rejected a government loan because of all the strings attached.
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According to a 2002 study by two economists at Indiana University, enforcing insider-trading laws reduced the cost of equity in the countries they looked at because investors did not demand a premium for the risk of trading with a crooked counterparty.
But, according to a study by two economists, Joachim Ragnitz and Marcel Thum, such a wage imposed across the economy would wipe out 1.1m low-wage jobs 3% of employment in western Germany and more than 6% in the east, where productivity is lower.
But according to a study by two American economists, women are better investors than men, earning a higher average return on their money.
As the study by the Princeton economists illustrates, in diverse systems where a greater number of perspectives are represented, more possibilities are considered and addressed.
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In a 2000 study performed by Princeton economists Alan Blinder and John Morgan, the researchers consistently found that groups made better decisions than individuals.
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Noted free market economists have applied economic analysis to study non-profits.
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Here are some brief excerpts from a recent study by two Swedish economists, including a critically important observation about the impact of bigger government on economic performance.
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In a 2008 study, a group of economists tracked the wages of 60, 000 father-child pairs from 1978 to 1999.
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Bullish action in ADM options and the bump-up in shares follow a study released by Purdue University economists on Tuesday showing, among other things, that high food prices are expected to persist for the next one to two years.
Last year, Enterprise commissioned a study by two respected outside economists that found most of the new car rental taxes are going to subsidize local sports stadiums or be used for other purposes with no relationship to special services for car renters.
Levitt, who understands his career as the study of incentives, accepts that economists, and especially he, view certain issues from a cold, almost withdrawn point which other people could consider immoral or inhumane.
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Yet that study has come under fire from other economists, who argue that comparing different states over time shows that raising the minimum wage hurts job growth.
Mr Cook believes Mr Brown should heed the warning of 11 international economists who publish the results of a six-month study on Tuesday.
In 2006 two economists, Dhaval Dave and Robert Kaestner, completed a study in which they looked at a group of Americans who had no insurance but then turned 65 and qualified for Medicare.
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Earlier this year an unofficial study by two of the DoJ's economists crunched the most recent data available, and reached the opposite, and more plausible, conclusion: that fewer competitors means higher fares, as one would expect.
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