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Family Violence and Football : The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
Card, David - 2009
using data on police reports of family violence on Sundays during the professional football season. Controlling for location …
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The Olympic Effect
Rose, Andrew K. - 2009
Economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting "mega-events" such as the Olympic Games or the World …
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Who Wins the Olympic Games : Economic Development and Medal Totals
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2000
medals? Why does China win 6% of the medals even though it has 1/5 of the world's population? We consider the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470733
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National Cultures and Soccer Violence
Miguel, Edward - 2008
natural experiment offered by the presence of thousands of international soccer (football) players in the European …
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Optimal Currency Shares in International Reserves : The Impact of the Euro and the Prospects for the Dollar
Papaioannou, Elias - 2006
market countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), adding constraints that reflect a central bank's desire to hold a sizable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466332
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Death and Development
Lorentzen, Peter - 2005
Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
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Systemic Crises and Growth
Ranciere, Romain - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
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Patterns of Intra- and Inter-State Trade
Wolf, Holger C. - 1997
Recent studies suggest that intranational trade is "excessive' compared to international trade. An intuitive explanation for this home bias is provided by national trade barriers. A dataset of trade between US states, however, reveals that home bias extends to subnational units. The data suggest...
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Asiaphoria Meets Regression to the Mean
Pritchett, Lant - 2014
Consensus forecasts for the global economy over the medium and long term predict the world's economic gravity will … substantially shift towards Asia and especially towards the Asian Giants, China and India. While such forecasts may pan out, there … are substantial reasons that China and India may grow much less rapidly than is currently anticipated. Most importantly …
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The Revived Bretton Woods System's First Decade
Dooley, Michael P. - 2014
cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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