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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes
Crayen, Dorothee - 2013
can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094542
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Stock Markets, Banks and Long Run Economic Growth : A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071385
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The Nature of Risk Preferences : Evidence from Insurance Choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2021
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315858
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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar - 2015
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032225
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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2021
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316188
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The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling - A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2021
We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent’s schooling on child’s schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316139
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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Marten; Persson, Mats - 2021
Sweden, we adopt several different approaches to deal with these problems. The results are robust in the sense that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316579
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Do Better Capitalized Banks Lend Less? Long-Run Panel Evidence from Germany
Buch, Claudia M. - 2013
between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090793
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Follow the Money : Does the Financial Sector Intermediate Natural Resource Windfalls?
Beck, Thorsten - 2017
The need to absorb windfalls gains and manage them appropriately has been discussed extensively by academics and policy makers alike. We explore the role of the financial sector in intermediating these windfalls. Controlling for the level of financial development, inflation, GDP growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960101
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Banking and Industrialization
Heblich, Stephan - 2015
banking access in 1817 may have been endogenously determined, we use instrumental variables to predict the location of country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014356