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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
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Private information, human capital, and optimal “home bias” in financial markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...
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Spillover effects of energy transition metals in Chile
Agnese, Pablo; Rios, Francisco - 2023
This paper examines the impact of spillover effects of energy transition metals on the Chilean economy. With the increasing demand for metals like copper and lithium due to the growth in renewable energies and electromobility, metal abundant countries like Chile must ready themselves to remain...
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Investigating the asymmetric impact of oil prices on GCC stock markets
Cheikh, Nidhaleddine Ben; Ben Naceur, Samy; Kanaan, … - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price movements and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. We propose the implementation of nonlinear vector smooth transition regression (VSTR) models which offer a greater flexibility when modelling the possible...
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When incentives backfire : spillover effects in food choice
Angelucci, Manuela; Prina, Silvia; Royer, Heather; … - 2015
How do peers influence the impact of incentives? Despite much work on incentives, little is known about the spillover effects of incentives. We investigate two mechanisms by which these effects can occur: through peers' actions and peers' incentives. In a field experiment on snack choice (grapes...
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Spillover effects of early-life medical interventions
Breining, Sanni Nørgaard; Daysal, N. Meltem; Simonsen, … - 2015
spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …
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When does FDI have positive spillovers? : evidence from 17 transition market economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2013
host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of … domestic firms while horizontal and forward linkages show no consistent effect. We also examine how the strength of spillovers …
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Knowledge spillovers, ICT and productivity growth
Corrado, Carol; Haskel, Jonathan; Jona-Lasinio, Cécilia - 2014
growth spillovers via mechanisms beyond those previously established for R&D. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374120
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Learning and behavioral spillovers of nutritional information
Prakarsh Singh - 2016
This paper provides evidence for informational spillovers within urban slums in Chandigarh, India. I identify three … children. Spillovers to neighboring (untreated) mothers can be through social learning or imitation. Results from a difference … control group. Neighboring mothers exhibit learning spillovers, changes in dietary behavior and a reduction in food …
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Spillovers from foreign firms through worker mobility : an empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2002
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this …
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