Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013166761

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

The effect of saving subsidies on household saving : evidence from Germany

Corneo, Giacomo; Keese, Matthias; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

. -- Household saving ; Saving incentives ; Retirement ; Riester scheme ; Coarsened exact matching …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952553

The income and consumption effects of Covid-19 and the role of public policy

Suphanit Piyapromdee; Spittal, Peter - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815160

Household savings, capital investments and public policies : what drives the German current account?

Ruppert, Kilian; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020

pensionreforms led to an increase in the household savings rate in Germany until about2010. As domestic investment opportunities …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256500

COVID-19 and the formation of energy conservation routines : disentangling the relative importance of attention and income shocks

Löschel, Andreas; Price, Michael Keith; Razzolini, Laura; … - 2022

We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formation of energy conservation routines. To do so, we use data from two nationwide surveys of German households, conducted before and during the pandemic. Across the two survey waves, we document a significant increase in the likelihood...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013474540

Households' expectations and regional COVID-19 dynamics

Cato, Misina; Schmidt, Tobias - 2023 - 16.01.2023

In this paper we analyze how consumers in Germany updated expectations about inaflation in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. We use a fixed effects model to estimate the effect of regional exposure to COVID-19 cases, the stringency of restriction measures and local unemployment rates on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227597

The impact of borrower-based instruments on household vulnerability in Germany

Barasinska, Nataliya; Ludwig, Johannes; Vogel, Edgar - 2021 - This version: June 22, 2021

Excessive household borrowing has been identified as an important determinant of financial crises. Borrower …-based instruments to be evaluated ex ante. The simulation is based on microdata from the German Panel on Household Finances (PHF) and is …-macro consistent simulation approach can be used to detect vulnerabilities in household balance sheets and perform an ex ante analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589225

Inflation expectations, inflation target credibility and the COVID-19 pandemic : new evidence from Germany

Coleman, Winnie; Nautz, Dieter - 2021

Using the exact wording of the ECB's definition of price-stability, we started a representative online survey of German citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation target. Our results indicate that credibility has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590362

Group lending or individual lending? : evidence from a randomised field experiment in Mongolia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Augsburg, Britta; Haas, Ralph de; … - 2014

Although microfinance institutions across the world are moving from group lending towards individual lending, this strategic shift is not substantiated by sufficient empirical evidence on the impact of both types of lending on borrowers. We present such evidence from a randomised field...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010247409

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last