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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Alcohol and short-run mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021
On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500339
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740268
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Wealth shocks and health outcomes : evidence from stock market fluctuations
Schwandt, Hannes - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373307
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A virus that knows no borders? Exposure to and restrictions of international travel and the global diffusion of COVID-19
Koopmans, Ruud - 2020
fehlender Landgrenzen dem internationalen Reiseverkehr weniger ausgesetzt sind, eine viel geringere Sterblichkeit. Die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299312
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Spreading the disease : protest in times of pandemics
Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021
This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430924
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Point, interval and density forecasts of exchange rates with time-varying parameter models
Abbate, Angela; Marcellino, Massimiliano - 2016
We explore whether modelling parameter time variation improves the point, interval and density forecasts of nine major exchange rates vis-a-vis the US dollar over the period 1976-2015. We find that modelling parameter time variation is needed for an accurate calibration of forecast confidence...
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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668680
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Knowledge flows, R&D spillovers and innovation
Peri, Giovanni - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428573
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Self-serving bias and tax morale
Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2014 - This version: September 2014
tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the …
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