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Racial Disparity in COVID-19 Deaths : Seeking Economic Roots with Census Data

McLaren, John - 2020

This note seeks the socioeconomic roots of racial disparities in COVID-19 mortality, using county-level mortality, economic, and demographic data from 3,140 counties. For all minorities, the minority's population share is strongly correlated with total COVID-19 deaths. For Hispanic/Latino and...

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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003

Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...

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Significance of development stage theory for explaining industrial growth pattern between Asian NICs and selected advanced economies

Nam, Chang-woon - 2002

NICs for the period 1980-95 and compares their specialisation pattern with that of more advanced economies like Japan, West …

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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Sources of Funds and Investment Activities of Venture Capital Funds : Evidence from Germany, Israel, Japan and the UK

Mayer, Colin - 2014

We compare sources of funds and investment activities of venture capital (VC) funds in Germany, Israel, Japan and the … particularly important in Germany, corporations in Israel, insurance companies in Japan, and pension funds in the UK. VC investment … countries; for example, bank backed VC funds in Germany and Japan are as involved in early stage finance as other funds in these …

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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015

Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...

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Bank Ties and Bond Market Access : Evidence on Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivity in Japan

McGuire, Patrick - 2003

paper investigates whether bank ties in Japan were costly for mature and healthy firms in the 1980's and 1990's, and whether …

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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Nakamura, Masao - 2013

Japan's zaibatsu, or pyramidal business groups, provided this coordination after the Meiji government failed at the task. We … that unique historical circumstances aided their success in prewar Japan. Specifically, Japan uniquely marginalized its …

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Recht der Aktionäre der Muttergesellschaft beim Börsengang des Tochterunternehmens

Lüders, Jürgen; Wulff, Jakob - In: Betriebs-Berater : BB 56 (2001) 24, pp. 1209-1214

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