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Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades …
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GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES,...
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We set up an open-economy, three-country version of the endogenous- mortality model of Lagerloef (forthcoming in the … International Economic Review). The model is calibrated to pre-industrial mortality data from England, France and Sweden. Fitting … parameters to match observed rates of correlation in mortality rates, the model can also account for: (1) differences in the …
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Good health is a crucial part of well-being but spending on health can be justified on economic grounds. The goal of reducing poverty provides a different but equally powerful case for health investments. However, if policymakers are to accelerate the substantial health gains of recent decades,...
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This paper presents an analytical model of underwriting capacity and insurance market equilibrium under an asymmetric corporate tax schedule. It is shown that reinsurance markets enable risk-neutral insurers to allocate tax shields to those firms that have the greatest capacity for utilizing...
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Merton�s Intertemporal CAPM to test whether these four sources of risk command different risk prices. The model performs well …
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. Such prices determine intrinsic returns that satisfy the CAPM equation. This paper shows that assets that pay a constant … predicts slightly higher discount rates than the CAPM. Empirical evidence supporting the CAPM cannot reject the RVT at a …
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Using one of the greatest hedge fund database ever used (2796 hedge funds including 801 dissolved), we investigate hedge funds performance using various asset-pricing models, including an extension form of Carhart's (1997) model combined with Fama & French (1998) Agarwal & Naik (2000) models and...
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desarrollo del CAPM y APT; y, la actual, correspondiente a las anomalias del CAPM, la cual incluye el estudio del behavioural …
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determine intrinsic expected returns that satisfy the CAPM equation. The intrinsic return of the risk-free asset is equal to the … return betas are approximately equal to intrinsic return betas. Market price expected returns do not satisfy the CAPM …
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