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Remittances, Banking Status and the Usage of Insurance Schemes
Crayen, Dorothee - 2013
can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … respondent has a formal funeral cover increases with income and banking status. However, it is lower for individuals receiving … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover …
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Stock Markets, Banks and Long Run Economic Growth : A Panel Cointegration-Based Analysis
Cavenaile, Laurent - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate the long run relationship between the development of banks and stock markets and economic growth. We make use of a Johansen-based panel cointegration methodology allowing for cross-country dependence to test the number of cointegrating vectors among these...
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Bank credit and economic growth : short-run evidence from a dynamic threshold panel model
Sok Heng Lay - In: Economics letters 192 (2020), pp. 1-3
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Bank profitability and economic growth
Klein, Paul-Olivier; Weill, Laurent - In: The quarterly review of economics and finance : journal … 84 (2022), pp. 183-199
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The Nature of Risk Preferences : Evidence from Insurance Choices
Barseghyan, Levon; Molinari, Francesca; O'Donoghue, Ted; … - 2021
We use data on insurance deductible choices to estimate a structural model of risky choice that incorporates 'standard …
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Consumption dynamics of Latinos and Asians in the US
Naguib, Costanza - In: Economics letters 215 (2022), pp. 1-5
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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar - 2015
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2021
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
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Who lets ethics guide his economic decision-making? : an empirical analysis of individual investments in ethical funds
Sä̈ve-Sö̈derbergh, Jenny - In: Economics letters 107 (2010) 2, pp. 270-272
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - In: Economics letters 123 (2014) 3, pp. 274-278
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