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discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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, and persistence in use. We focus on a young person’s choice to consume marijuana, alcohol or cigarettes (and possible … joint consumption and access to obtain correct price sensitivity estimates. Post-legalization, youth marijuana use would …
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Every year 400,000 entrepreneurs fail and 60,000 file for personal bankruptcy. The option to declare bankruptcy provides entrepreneurs with insurance against the financial consequences of business failures. However, it comes at the cost of worsened credit market conditions. In this paper, we...
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Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....
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countries' standards, keeping domestic consumption growth at surprisingly low levels. As a consequence, despite the size of its …
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procyclical vis-Ã-vis sending country income. Second, remittances tend to be spent on consumption of both imported and …
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This paper investigates whether there is a different impact from changes in quot;newquot; and quot;oldquot; economy stock valuations on private investment for seven OECD economies. A vector autoregressive model is estimated for each individual country, using quarterly data over the period...
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valuations on private consumption. Estimating a reduced-form VAR for seven OECD countries for the 1990s, it is found that the … impact from changes in old economy stock valuations on consumption is in general larger in the United States, Canada, and the … United Kingdom than in continental Europe. Furthermore, the impact from changes in new economy valuations to consumption is …
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This paper provides a model on how altruism, quot;attachmentquot; to the home country, and portfolio diversification may act as potential motives behind workers` remittances. It shows that the level of workers` remittances depends on how great are their degrees of altruism and...
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We empirically revisit the crowding-in effect of government spending on private consumption based on rolling windows of … U.S. data. Results show that in earlier samples government spending is increasingly crowding in private consumption … consumption in the utility function and rule-of-thumb consumers to assess the sources of non-monotonic changes in the transmission …
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