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This paper investigates the increasing exposure of European households to risky financial assets and the consequent impact on the economy. I analyze household data for Italy and the United Kingdom, countries that differ dramatically in their financial structure and capital markets. I estimate an...
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alleviate poverty and reduce income inequality over time. …
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importance of incomplete markets when risk-averse agents are subject to idiosyncratic employment shocks. A version of the model …
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This survey reviews a number of different fundamentals-based models for estimating default probabilities for firms and/or industries, and illustrates them with real applications by practitioners and policy making institutions. The models are especially useful when the firms analyzed do not have...
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In the growth literature, evidence on income convergence is mixed. In the development literature, health and education …
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standard CPI and a democratically weighed index (i.e., the plutocratic bias) as the product of average income, income … inequality, and the covariance between individual price indexes and a parameter related to each good's income elasticity. This …
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inflows of external income?the sum of remittances, FDI and general government transfers?from major oil-exporting economies … that real output in the long run is shaped by: (i) oil prices through their impact on external income and in turn on … the hypothesis that a large share of Jordan's output volatility can be associated with fluctuations in net income received …
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We estimate tax multipliers in a "Blanchard-Yaari" consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of interest. The model fits U.S. data since 1955 extremely well-entailing a discount wedge of around 20...
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a fall in their asset income by saving more out of their labor income, dollar-for-dollar. In the wake of the crisis, our …
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The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) prepared by the Burkinabè government forms the principal benchmark for all development actors, and reaffirms the urgency of attacking poverty from a structural perspective. It is the primary tool for coordination of all interventions and of public aid...
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