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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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Barriers to electrification for "under grid" households in rural Kenya
Lee, Kenneth; Brewer, Eric; Christiano, Carson; Meyo, … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394662
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Climate change and long-run discount rates : evidence from real estate
Giglio, Stefano; Maggiori, Matteo; Stroebel, Johannes; … - 2015
The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …
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Estimating dynamic R&D demand : an analysis of costs and long-run benefits
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187041
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The economic tragedy of the XXth century : growth in Africa
Artadi, Elsa V.; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001775738
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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand
Noy, Ilan; Cuong Nhu Nguyen; Patel, Pooja - 2019
In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the flood's economic impacts. In 2012, households answered a set of questions on the extent of flooding they experienced. We use this self-identified flood exposure, and external...
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Measuring the economic risk of COVID-19
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2020
in most of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. These results are consistent when comparing an ad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231556
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Measuring the economic risk of epidemics
Noy, Ilan; Nguyen Doan; Ferrarini, Benno; Park, Donghyun - 2019
in most Africa, the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia. These results are consistent when comparing an ad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156716
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The economic impacts of a pandemic : what happened after SARS in 2003?
Nguyen Doan; Nguyen Phuc Canh; Noy, Ilan; Sawada, Yasuyuki - 2020
This study quantifies the economic impacts of SARS on the four affected Asian economies and the two most affected Chinese regions using synthetic control methods with macroeconomic and remote-sensing nightlight data. For the four affected economies (China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore), we...
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Social distancing and the economic impact of COVID-19 in the United States
Bürgi, Constantin; Gorgulu, Nisan - 2020
This study documents how the demographics of new infections and mortality changed over time across US counties. We find that counties with a larger population share aged above 60 were hit harder initially in terms of both cases and mortality in March and April while counties with a larger...
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