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The role early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J. H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010

Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...

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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate in life: Evidence based on inidviduals born at different stages of the business cycle

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008

We connect the recent medical and economic literatures on the long-run effects of early-life conditions, by analyzing the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual data records from the Danish Twin Registry covering births...

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Adjusting Measures of Economic Output for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

Egan, Mark L.; Mulligan, Casey B.; Philipson, Tomas J. - 2013

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Indian Economic Outlook 2008-09 and 2009-10

Kumar, Rajiv - 2009

This paper provides an outlook for the Indian economy in the light of the extraordinary global financial crisis, that started in the US, but which has now transformed into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. The Indian economy was slowing down even before the onset of global...

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Ökonomische Wirkungen der Handwerksnovelle 2004: Ergebnisse aus einem quasinatürlichen Experiment

Koch, Andreas; Nielen, Sebastian - 2016

Die Reform der Handwerksordnung des Jahres 2004 brachte insbesondere durch die Abschaffung der Meisterpflicht für mehr als die Hälfte der Gewerbezweige des Handwerks eine umfassende Liberalisierung der Zugangsbedingungen. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert unter Verwendung von Daten des...

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Ein disaggregierter Ansatz zur Berechnung konjunkturbereinigter Budgetsalden für Deutschland: Methoden und Ergebnisse

Mohr, Matthias - 2001

In diesem Papier wird eine Konjunkturbereinigung des öffentlichen Haushaltssaldos für Deutschland vorgestellt. In den …, dass die Konjunkturabhängigkeit des Saldos in Deutschland geringer ist als bisher vermutet wurde. …A method for the calculation of a cyclically adjusted balance for Germany is presented. Within the most commonly …

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Business cycles and FDI: evidence from German sectoral data

Buch, Claudia M.; Lipponer, Alexander - 2005

Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...

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Consumption, wealth and business cycles: why is Germany different?

Hamburg, Britta; Hoffmann, Mathias; Keller, Joachim - 2005

-wealth ratio - in Germany, based on data from 1980 to 2003. Earlier papers for the Anglo-Saxon economies have documented that … departures of these three variables from their common trend signal future changes in asset prices. We find that for Germany they …-American system: stock ownership by private households is much less widespread in Germany than in the Anglo-Saxon economies and the …

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The cross-sectional dynamics of German business cycles: a bird's eye view

Döpke, Jörg; Funke, Michael; Holly, Sean; Weber, Sebastian - 2005

We establish some stylised facts for Germany's business cycle at the level of the firm. Based on longitudinal firm …

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Identifying the role of labor markets for monetary policy in an estimated DSGE model

Christoffel, Kai Philipp; Küster, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2006

We focus on a quantitative assessment of rigid labor markets in an environment of stable monetary policy. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process and derive monetary policy implications. Towards that aim, we structurally model matching frictions and rigid wages...

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