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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics: Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle; Fabbri, Giorgio; Schubert, … - 2020

This paper presents a ﬁrst model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a general equilibrium dynamic economic set-up. The occurrence of pandemics is modeled as Poissonian leaps in economic variables. The planner can intervene in the economic and...

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Prevention and Mitigation of Epidemics : Biodiversity Conservation and Confinement Policies

Augeraud-Véron, Emmanuelle - 2020

This paper presents a first model integrating the relation between biodiversity loss and zoonose pandemic risks in a general equilibrium dynamic economic set-up. The occurrence of pandemics is modeled as Poissonian leaps in economic variables. The planner can intervene in the economic and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824824

Do Weak Institutions Prolong Crises? On the Identification, Characteristics, and Duration of Declines during Economic Slumps

Bluhm, Richard; de Crombrugghe, Denis; Szirmai, Adam - 2014

This paper defines economic slumps as sequences of structural breaks exhibiting a specific pattern. We identify 58 such episodes between 1950 and 2008 among 138 countries, and then examine the phases of decline and their duration. In some countries declines last extremely long, and we put...

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Quick job entry or long-term human capital development? The dynamic effects of alternative training schemes

Osikominu, Aderonke - 2012

This paper investigates how precisely short-term, job-search oriented training programs as opposed to long-term, human capital intensive training programs work. We evaluate and compare their effects on time until job entry, stability of employment, and earnings. Further, we examine the...

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Overeducation at the Start of the Career - Stepping Stone or Trap?

Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart; Verhaest, Dieter - 2012

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

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Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Utar, Hale - 2018

Violence in Mexico has reached unprecedented levels in recent times. After the government began a crackdown on drug … studies the impact of violent conflict on firms, exploiting this period of heightened violence in Mexico commonly referred to … significant distortive effects of the Mexican Drug War on domestic industrial development in Mexico and suggest that the Drug War …

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