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Construction of composite business cycle indicators in a sparse data environment
Abberger, Klaus; Nierhaus, Wolfgang - 2011
Business cycle indicators are important instruments for monitoring economic development. When employing indicators one usually relies on a sound statistical database. This paper deals with indicator development in a sparse data situation. Indicator building is merged with temporal...
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Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective
Grossmann, Volker - 2021
This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...
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Do pandemics change healthcare? : evidence from the great influenza
Esteves, Rui Pedro; Mitchener, Kris; Nencka, Peter; … - 2022
Using newly digitized U.S. city-level data on hospitals, we explore how pandemics alter preferences for healthcare. We … access to healthcare. We do not find evidence that government-run hospitals or other types of city-level spending related to … healthcare responded to pandemic intensity, suggesting that large health shocks do not necessarily lead to increased public …
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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012
Since Jean Monnet conceived the Coal and Steel Community, free trade has successfully prevented serious conflicts in Europe between democratically governed States with market economies. After six countries established the European Community, this principle has been extended successfully to its...
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Weapons of choice
Dreher, Axel; Kreibaum, Merle - 2015
This article investigates the effect of natural resources on whether ethno-political groups choose to pursue their goals with non-violent as compared to violent means, distinguishing terrorism from insurgencies. It is hypothesized that whether or not the extraction of fossil fuels sparks...
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How does the flow of remittances affect the trade balance of the Middle East and North Africa?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Hassan, Sherif Maher - 2016
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances worldwide over the last three decades. The region has also had the highest non-oil external trade balance deficit among developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in...
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Can there be a wave-like association between economic growth and inequality? : theory and lessons for East Asia from the Middle East
Gangopadhyay, Partha; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012
High income growth in many countries in East Asia and the Middle East has been accompanied by increasing income inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This...
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Culture, institutions & the long divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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Satisfaction with amenities and taste for revolt in the Middle East
Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals' satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...
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Sustainability of an economy relying on two reproducible assets
Cairns, Robert D.; Del Campo, Stellio; Martinet, Vincent - 2017
Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each...
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