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Learning by Suffering? Patterns in Flu Shot Take-up

Jin, Ginger Zhe - 2018

An annual flu shot is one of the least controversial and most widely-recommended preventative health measures. In spite of such advice, only a fraction of those who are suggested to get a flu shot actually receive it. We focus on past personal outcomes to understand how individual learning in...

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An analysis of peer effects on vaccination behavior using a model of privately provided public goods

Ibuka, Yoko; Itaya, Jun-ichi; Miyazato, Naomi - 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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Investors' Portfolio Behavior Under Alternative Models of Long-Term Interest Rate Expectations : Unitary, Rational, or Autoregressive

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 1980

This paper develops behavioral relationships explaining investors' demands for long-term bonds, using three alternative hypotheses about investors' expectations of future bond prices (yields). The results, based on U.S. 'data for six major categories of bond market investors, consistently...

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Estimating the Fraction of Unreported Infections in Epidemics with a Known Epicenter : an Application to COVID-19

Hortaçsu, Ali - 2020

We develop an analytically tractable method to estimate the fraction of unreported infections in epidemics with a known epicenter and estimate the number of unreported COVID-19 infections in the US during the first half of March 2020. Our method utilizes the covariation in initial reported...

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Pandemics and economic growth : evidence from the 1968 H3N2 influenza

Jinjarak, Yothin; Noy, Ilan; Ta, Quy - 2020

We evaluate the 1968 H3N2 Flu pandemic’s economic cost in a cross-section of 52 countries. Using excess mortality rates as a proxy for the country-specific severity of the pandemic, we find that the average mortality rate (0.0062% per pandemic wave) was associated with declines in consumption...

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Externalities and Growth Accounting

Benhabib, Jess - 1989

We reexamine several bodies of data on the growth of output, labor, and capital, within the context of a model that admits the possibility of an externality to the capital input. The model is an augmented version of Paul Romer's (1987) reformulation of the Solow model. Unlike Romer, however, we...

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Externalities and Growth

Klenow, Peter J. - 2004

Externalities play a central role in most theories of economic growth. We argue that international externalities, in … have international knowledge externalities. When calibrated, the hybrid model does a surprisingly good job of generating …

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Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Dee, Thomas S. - 2003

these externalities exist. I assess and implement two strategies for identifying the effects of educational attainment. One …

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Reverse adaptive krill herd locally weighted support vector regression for forecasting and trading exchange traded funds

Sermpinis, Georgios; Stasinakis, Charalampos; … - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 263 (2017) 2, pp. 540-558

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Pandemics, Vaccines and Corporate Earnings

Hong, Harrison - 2020

We estimate a model of damage to corporate earnings from COVID-19. An unexpected pandemic lowers current earnings due to costly mitigation and reduces growth rates. Damage depends on the expected arrival of a vaccine that reverts earnings to normal. Using this model, we infer from analysts'...

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