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Malaria control and infant mortality in Africa
Cogneau, Denis; Rossi, Pauline - 2019
Has massive distribution of insecticide-treated-nets contributed to the reduction in in- fant mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa over the past 15 years? Using large household surveys collected in 16 countries and exploiting the spatial correlation in distribution campaigns, we estimate the...
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Maternal stress and offspring lifelong labor market outcomes
Atella, Vincenzo; Di Porto, Edoardo; Kopinska, Joanna; … - 2020 - Preliminary version: September 10, 2020
This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...
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A cointegration analysis of agricultural, energy and bio-fuel spot and futures prices
Allen, David E.; Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; … - 2016
This paper features an analysis of the cointegration relationships among agricultural commodity, ethanol and Cushing … cointegration and Markov-switching VECM and Impulse Response Analysis, confirms that these markets have significant linkages which …
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Optimal hedging with the Vector Autoregressive model
Gatarek, Lukasz; Johansen, Søren - 2014
with general cointegration rank. Our hedge is optimal in the sense of minimum variance portfolio. We consider a model that … correlation and cointegration parameters. For short holding periods the correlation impact is predominant. For long horizons, the … hedge ratio should overweight the cointegration parameters rather then short-run correlation information. In the innite …
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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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Growth regression and economic theory
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2002 - Rev.
In this note we show that the standard, loglinear growth regression specificationis consistent with one and only one model in the class of stochastic Ramsey models. Thismodel is highly restrictive: it requires a Cobb-Douglas technology and a 100% depreciationrate and it implies that risk does...
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Economic growth and the volatility of foreign aid
Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...
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Spurious regression, cointegration, and near cointegration : a unifying approach
Haldrup, Niels; Jansson, Michael - 1999
cointegration are provided. As a first application, we give analyticalcorroboration of the conjecture that the finite sample … coefficient. Hence, the notionof near cointegration helps to bridge the gap between the polar cases ofspurious regression and … cointegration. Secondly, we characterize theproperties of conventional cointegration methods under near cointegration …
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Do income disparities dissipate across the US states? : experimenting with a Vector Error Correction Model
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013
This paper examines the long-run trends in per-capita income across the US states (1929-2005). Our analysis advocates and implements a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), in order to investigate whether disparities in per-capita income embody a stable long-run relation. The empirical...
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Modelling the effects of oil prices on global fertilizer prices and volatility
Chen, Ping-Yu; Chang, Chia-Lin; Chen, Chi-chung; … - 2013
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