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Do Public Health Interventions Crowd Out Private Health Investments? Malaria Control Policies in Eritrea

Carneiro, Pedro; Ghebremeskel, Tewolde; Keating, Joseph; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

malaria more salient, leading to a change in beliefs about its importance and to an increase in private health investments. …

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Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? Evidence from Local Markets for (Fake?) Antimalarial Medicine in Uganda

Björkman Nyqvist, Martina; Svensson, Jakob; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Counterfeit and sub-standard antimalarial drugs present a growing threat to public health. This paper investigates the … counterfeit drugs in incumbent outlets by half. We also provide suggestive evidence that misconceptions about malaria lead …

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Fear of Floating and Pegging: A Simultaneous Choice Model of De Jure and De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes

von Hagen, Jürgen; Zhou, Jizhong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We present an analysis of the determinants of de jure and de facto exchange rate regimes based on a panel probit model with simultaneous equations. The model is estimated using simulation-based maximum likelihood methods. The empirical results suggest a triangular structure of the model such...

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When are Supply and Demand Determined Recursively Rather than Simultaneously? Another look at the Fulton Fish Market Data

Graddy, Kathryn; Kennedy, Peter E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

When a supply and demand model is recursive, with errors uncorrelated across the two equations, ordinary least squares (OLS) is the recommended estimation procedure. Supply to a daily fish market is determined by the previous night’s catch, so this would appear to be a good example of a...

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Inflation Targeting and Business Cycle Synchronization

Flood, Robert P; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Inflation targeting seems to have a small but positive effect on the synchronization of business cycles; countries that target inflation seem to have cycles that move slightly more closely with foreign cycles. Thus the advent of inflation targeting does not explain the decoupling of global...

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Cross-Country Causes and Consequences of the Crisis: An Update

Rose, Andrew K; Spiegel, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We update Rose and Spiegel (2009a, b) and search for simple quantitative models of macroeconomic and financial indicators of the "Great Recession" of 2008-09. We use a cross-country approach and examine a number of potential causes that have been found to be successful indicators of crisis...

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An Aggregate Model of Output, Inflation and Interest Rates for Industrialised Countries

Beenstock, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

. The model includes equations for GDP, inflation, interest rates and non-oil commodity prices. GDP and inflation reflect …

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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 that the volcano emits eventually forms particulate matter, another major pollutant. We use this exogenous source of pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate...

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Investments in Pharmaceuticals Before and After TRIPS

Kyle, Margaret K; McGahan, Anita M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper addresses the relationship between patent protection and investment in the development of new pharmaceutical treatments. The TRIPS Agreement, which specifies minimum levels of intellectual property protection for countries in the World Trade Organization, has increased levels of...

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Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

Falk, Armin; Menrath, Ingo; Siegrist, Johannes; Verde, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

cardiovascular health. We further test potential adverse health effects of unfair pay using data from a large representative data set …. Complementary to our experimental findings we find a strong and highly significant association between health outcomes, in … particular cardiovascular health, and fairness of pay. …

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