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Asset price shocks, real expenditures, and financial structure : a multi-country analysis

Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Haan, Leo de (contributor) - 2008

This paper examines the responses of private consumption, residential investment, and business investment in 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings...

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Escaping from a combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch

Heinemann, Frank (contributor) - 2008

This brief exposition suggests that the Federal Reserve System temporarily guarantee a lower bound on stock prices in order to escape the current combination of liquidity trap and credit crunch. It shortly discusses reasons for this measure, consequences, and some alternatives. It is meant as a...

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Out of sight, out of mind? : the impact of natural disasters on pregnancy outcomes

Simeonova, Emilia - 2009

The impact of global climate change on health is not well understood. Besides the direct channel of increasing temperatures, there is a potentially more harmful one: through an increase in extreme weather incidents. We offer the first evidence on the effect of natural disasters on pregnancy...

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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Nineteenth century white US statures varied with nutrition, disease exposure, and the physical environment. An additional explanation for stature growth is vitamin D production. Vitamin D is produced internally by the synthesis of cholesterol and sunlight in the epidermis. However, studies that...

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Macroeconomic factors and micro-level bank risk

Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - 2010

The interplay between banks and the macroeconomy is of key importance for financial and economic stability. We analyze this link using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) which extends a standard VAR for the U.S. macroeconomy. The model includes GDP growth, inflation, the...

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Do taboo trade-offs explain the difficulty in valuing health and social interventions?

Shiell, Alan; Sperber, Daniel; Porat, Carly - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 6, pp. 935-939

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Controlling for endogeneity in the health-socioeconomic status relationship of the near retired

Bender, Keith A.; Theodossiou, Ioannis - In: The journal of socio-economics 38 (2009) 6, pp. 977-987

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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010

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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Time variation in U.S. wage dynamics

Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert; Straub, Roland - 2010

This paper explores time variation in the dynamic effects of technology shocks on U.S. output, prices, interest rates …", technology shocks in contrast triggered wage-price spirals, moving nominal wages and prices in the same direction at longer … the labor market. Accordingly, the degree of wage indexation is not structural in the sense of Lucas (1976). -- technology …

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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature

Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007

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