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Catching-up and inflation in Europe : Balassa-Samuelson, Engel's law and other Culprits
Égert, Balázs - 2010
focus on the new member countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Using an array of estimation methods, we show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003982012
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Lost in translation : what do Engel curves tell us about the cost of living?
Almås, Ingvild; Beatty, Timothy K.M.; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2018
The Hamilton method for estimating CPI bias is simple, intuitive, and has been widely adopted. We show that the method confiates CPI bias with variation in cost-of-living across income levels. Assuming a single price index across the income distribution is inconsistent with the downward sloping...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794248
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact … of climate change on the level and variability of yields of rice (India’s major food crop) and two key millet crops … (sorghum and pearl millet), using an all India district level panel dataset from 1966-2011. A stochastic production function is …
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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565633
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Liquidity constraints, household wealth, and entrepreneurship revisited
Fairlie, Robert W.; Krashinsky, Harry A. - 2012 - Current Draft: August 2011
A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship as providing evidence of liquidity constraints. Recently, however, the liquidity constraint interpretation has been challenged because of the finding that the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522307
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010182
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Systemic crises and growth
Rancière, Romain (contributor); Tornell, Aaron (contributor) - 2005
In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002757563
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The dynamics of finance-growth-inequality nexus : theory and evidence for India
Pranab Kumar Das; Ganguli, Bhaswati; Marjit, Sugata; … - 2018
The purpose of this research study has been to expand our understanding of the finance-growth "nexus" to finance-growth-inequality "nexus" in the presence of both the formal and the informal sources of borrowing. Using empirical evidence of IHDS Survey data for two rounds the study attempts to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011952114
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Regulatory risk under optimal incentive regulation
Strausz, Roland - 2009
The paper provides a tractable, analytical framework to study regulatory risk. Regulatory risk is captured by uncertainty about the policy variables in the regulator's objective function: weights attached to profits and costs of public funds. Results are as follows: 1) The regulator's reaction...
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