Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides …

the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a … for men. The probability to be never-married decreases in the American oil-producing areas immediately after the shock …. This effect persists after the oil boom is over but longer for men than for women. …

This paper investigates the impact of oil price variations on sectoral inflation for a sample of 10 top oil importing … and exporting countries. Specifically, we analyze the effects of oil prices on the consumer price index using monthly data … distributed lag approach (NARDL), and the Hansen's model (2000). Our econometric results first indicate that the effect of oil …

This paper is an innovative attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of crude oil prices. The main objective … is to distinguish between short- and long-term effects of some covariates on oil prices. The autoregressive distributed … provides new insights for examining the determinants of oil prices. All investigations of underlying oil price fluctuations are …

Revealing the precise thresholds at which fluctuations in oil prices start to affect gross domestic product and its … oil-importing and oil-exporting countries. Existing studies assessing the effects of oil prices on economic activity … allows for the possibility that oil prices will have a time-varying effect on economic activity. We also employ the …

the world. We also find that the Iranian economy adjusts quite quickly to the shocks in foreign output and oil exports …This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil … regularity conditions and assuming a Cobb Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long run …

We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the US We first use smooth transition … regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor market … response to shocks mimicking the behavior of the actual oil price shocks. We find that (i) these shocks are an important …

In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP … per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the … oil revenues, GDP and investment can be confirmed for all countries. While the cointegration vector is found to be unique …