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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Devaluation with Contract Redenomination in Argentina
Calomiris, Charles - 2006
Argentina's policy of devaluation with redenomination in 2002, in contrast to Mexico's policy of devaluation without debt … redenomination in 1994-1995, shows that devaluation benefited tradables firms, and that dollar debt redenomination in Argentina … investment by high energy users in Argentina, and that benefit was apparent also in positive stock returns of those firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466017
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Gaucho Banking Redux
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2003
Argentina's economic crisis has strong similarities with previous crises stretching back to the nineteenth century. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469246
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Inflation Expectations, Learning and Supermarket Prices
Cavallo, Alberto - 2014
Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in lower-inflation contexts have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458089
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Economic Recovery from the Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and the Change of Macroeconomic Regime
Paolera, Gerardo della - 2000
This work explores how Argentina overcame the Great Depression and asks whether active macroeconomic interventions made …-standard orthodoxy after the final suspension of convertibility in 1929. As elsewhere, fiscal policy in Argentina was conservative, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471138
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The Macroeconomic Effects of Macroprudential Policy : Evidence from a Narrative Approach
Rojas, Diego - 2020
Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay). To correctly identify innovations in changes in legal reserve …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481235
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Criminal Recidivism after Prison and Electronic Monitoring
Tella, Rafael Di - 2009
We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic monitoring (EM). We find that the recidivism rate of former prisoners is 22% while that for those 'treated' with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463047
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Risk Matters : The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2009
sample of four emerging small open economies: Argentina, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Brazil. We postulate a stochastic volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463773
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Generational Policy
Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2001
Generational policy is a fundamental aspect of a nation's fiscal affairs. The policy involves redistributing resources across generations and allocating to particular generations the burden of paying the government's bills. This chapter of the second edition of The Handbook of Public Economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470563
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The Deregularization of Land Titles
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
titles to very poor families in a suburban area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although previous studies on this experiment have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456195