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An Analysis of Peer Effects on Vaccination Behavior Using a Model of Privately Provided Public Goods
Ibuka, Yoko - 2018
Traditional economic models of vaccination behavior simply assume that agents free-ride on the vaccination decisions of … conjectural variation model, to explain how a positive peer effect regarding vaccination behavior arises. We conduct two empirical … studies using Japanese data in these models. The first empirical analysis, using a data set on the vaccination behavior of …
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Immunity
Reddy, Karthik; Schularick, Moritz; Skreta, Vasiliki - CESifo - 2013
of immunity both theoretically and empirically. Our theoretical model demonstrates that immunity is a double-edged sword …; while statutory immunity provisions protect honest politicians from politically-motivated charges, they may also incentivize … effects of immunity provisions, we quantify the strength of immunity protection enjoyed by heads of government, ministers, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877744
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Talk or Text? Evaluating Response Rates by Remote Survey Method during COVID-19
Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte, Lelys; Dominguez-Rivera, Patricio; … - 2022
Researchers and policy makers face significant challenges in selecting a method to conduct remote surveys, especially when collecting sensitive information or during turbulent life stages of hard-to-reach groups. In the context of the COVID-19 lockdown, we randomly selected about 600 adults in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308568
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Gravity Estimation of the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Trade : An Alternative Procedure with Alternative Data
Flam, Harry - 2011
. By using data on the number of bilaterally traded products we improve on identification and allow estimation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128040
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Monetary Policy Analysis in Real-Time : Vintage Combination from a Real-Time Dataset
Altavilla, Carlo - 2011
This paper provides a general strategy for analyzing monetary policy in real time which accounts for data uncertainty without explicitly modelling the revision process. The strategy makes use of all the data available from a real-time data matrix and averages model estimates across all data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128542
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How Strongly Did the 2007/08 Oil Price Hike Contribute to the Subsequent Recession?
Carstensen, Kai - 2011
What were the economic consequences of the 2007/08 oil price hike for Germany? In this paper we use a structural vector autoregressive model to study the effects of oil price changes driven by different supply and demand shocks on the German economy. We find that a higher oil bill always stifles...
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Natural Resource Endowment : A Mixed Blessing?
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2011
This paper deals with the implications of natural resources for the conduct of economic policies and the role and design of institutions in resource‐rich countries. The paper briefly reviews the experience of a few resource‐rich countries, highlighting the successes of those that have done...
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The Consequences of Being Different - Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Mueller, Barbara - 2011
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. But statistical discrimination can induce costs, if labor relations cannot be terminated in the...
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The Positive Border Effect of EU Integration
Brakman, Steven - 2011
Distance related variables typically vary in a cross-section dimension but less so in a time dimension across cities, regions, or countries. The enlargement of the EU or the introduction of the euro, however, can be looked upon as integration shocks that are informative of the consequences of...
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Gender Unemployment Catching-Up : Empirical Evidence from Italian Regions
Belloc, Marianna - 2011
We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is occurring in most of the regions but at different pace....
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