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The Dynamics of Income-Related Health Inequality Among US Children

Chatterji, Pinka - 2011

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related health mobility index recently introduced by Allanson et al., 2010. Data come from the 1997, 2002, and 2007 … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying …

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The Long-Run Consequences of Chernobyl : Evidence on Subjective Well-Being, Mental Health and Welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2021

health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in …

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Unemployment and Domestic Violence : Theory and Evidence

Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan; … - 2021

Is unemployment the overwhelming determinant of domestic violence that many commentators expect it to be? The contribution of this paper is to examine, theoretically and empirically, how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. The key theoretical prediction is that male...

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The behaviour of the real exchange rate : evidence from regression quantiles

Nikolaou, Kleopatra (contributor) - 2006

We test for mean reversion in real exchange rates using a recently developed unit root test for non-normal processes based on quantile autoregression inference in semi-parametric and non-parametric settings. The quantile regression approach allows us to directly capture the impact of different...

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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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Futures contract rates as monetary policy forecasts

Ferrero, Giuseppe; Nobili, Andrea - 2008

The prices of futures contracts on short-term interest rates are commonly used by central banks to gauge market expectations concerning monetary policy decisions. Excess returns - the difference between futures rates and the realized rates - are positive, on average, and statistically...

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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area

Leuvensteijn, Michiel van; Bikker, Jacob A.; Rixtel, … - 2007

on the lending markets in the five major EU countries as well as, for comparison, the UK, the US and Japan. Bearing the …, whereas overall loan markets in Germany and Spain were among the best competitive in the EU. The Netherlands occupied a more …

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Unconventional monetary policy and the great recession : estimating the impact of a compression in the yield spread at the zero lower bound

Baumeister, Christiane; Benati, Luca - 2010

We explore the macroeconomic impact of a compression in the long-term bond yield spread within the context of the Great Recession of 2007-2009 via a Bayesian time-varying parameter structural VAR. We identify a 'pure' spread shock which, leaving the short-term rate unchanged by construction,...

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Government measures in support of the financial sector in the EU and the United States

Stolz, Stéphanie Marie; Wedow, Michael - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 46 (2011) 1, pp. 53-60

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Joint estimation of the natural rate of interest, the natural rate of unemployment, expected inflation, and potential output

Benati, Luca (contributor); Vitale, Giovanni (contributor) - 2007

We jointly estimate the natural rate of interest, the natural rate of unemployment, expected inflation, and potential output for the Euro area, the United States, Sweden, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Particular attention is paid to time-variation in (i) the data-generation process for...

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