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Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

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Conflict experiences and household expectations on recovery: Survey evidence from northern Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2010

We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood...

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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare …

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How many bucks in a bang: on the estimation of the economic costs of conflict

de Groot, Olaf J.; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - 2009

give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict …

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Cross-section analysis of health spending with special regard to trends in Austria

Hofmarcher, Maria M. - 1999

During the 90s the increase in health spending which compared to the overall growth had taken place at a rather rapid pace experienced a worldwide slow-down. In relation to overall economic growth and the expansion of other countries' health care systems, Austria's system grew below average- a...

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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...

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A hierarchical procedure for the combination of forecasts

Costantini, Mauro; Pappalardo, Carmine - 2009

This paper proposes a strategy to increase the efficiency of forecast combination. Given the availability of a wide range of forecasts for the same variable of interest, our goal is to apply combining methods to a restricted set of models. To this aim, a hierarchical procedure based on an...

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Global imbalances and the current account adjustment process: An empirical analysis

Tippkötter, Marius - 2010

This paper investigates the impact of the exchange rate regime on the current account adjustment process. In a first step, the present analysis assesses previous empirical work supporting the predominant view that more flexible exchange rate regimes facilitate current account adjustments. Using...

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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2010

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of high frequency financial time series. It focuses on temporal aggregation and the influence that this might have on the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for...

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Time-varying spot and futures oil price dynamics

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Ciferri, Davide; Girardi, … - 2010

We investigate the role of crude oil spot and futures prices in the process of price discovery by using a cost-of-carry model with an endogenous convenience yield and daily data over the period from January 1990 to December 2008. We provide evidence that futures markets play a more important...

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