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The Center and the Periphery : The Globalization of Financial Turmoil
Kaminsky, Graciela L. - 2003
financial crises in the late 1990s: Brazil, Russia, and Thailand. Our findings indicate that financial turbulence in these …, spillovers are confined to countries in the same region. We also find that fragility in institutions in the financial centers is … at the core of global spillovers while economic and monetary policy news contributes to regional spillovers …
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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil : A Quantile Panel Data Approach
Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008
We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric … procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464276
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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388880
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When Cryptomining Comes to Town : High Electricity-use Spillovers to the Local Economy
Benetton, Matteo; Compiani, Giovanni; Morse, Adair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Cryptomining, the clearing of cryptocurrency transactions, uses large quantities of electricity. We document that cryptominers' use of local electricity implies higher electricity prices for existing small businesses and households. Studying the electricity market in Upstate NY and using the...
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The Gendered Spillover Effect of Young Children's Health on Human Capital : Evidence from Turkey
Alsan, Marcella - 2017
Recent policy debates on closing the education gender gap in developing countries have focused on cash transfers, but standard models of intrahousehold allocation imply that reducing the opportunity cost of girls' schooling might also be effective. I test this prediction using quasi-experimental...
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Direct and Spillover Effects of Middle School Vaccination Requirements
Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2017
also document cross-vaccine spillovers: the mandates increased adolescent vaccination for meningococcal disease and human …
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Cross-Border Prudential Policy Spillovers : How Much? How Important? Evidence from the International Banking Research Network
Buch, Claudia M. - 2016
instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes and their effects on bank lending growth. The … bank lending. Second, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank …-specific factors like balance sheet conditions and business models drive the amplitude and direction of spillovers to lending growth …
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International Banking and Cross-border Effects of Regulation : Lessons from the United States
Berrospide, Jose - 2016
Domestic prudential regulation can have unintended effects across borders and may be less effective in an environment where banks operate globally. Using U.S. micro-banking data for the first quarter of 2000 through the third quarter of 2013, this study shows that some regulatory changes indeed...
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Do tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2016
that the R&D generated by the tax policy creates positive spillovers on the innovations of techno-logically related firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456272
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The Spillovers, Interactions, and (Un)Intended Consequences of Monetary and Regulatory Policies
Forbes, Kristin - 2016
Have bank regulatory policies and unconventional monetary policies--and any possible interactions--been a factor behind the recent "deglobalisation" in cross-border bank lending? To test this hypothesis, we use bank-level data from the UK--a country at the heart of the global financial system....
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