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Mortgage market maturity and homeownership inequality among young households : a five-country perspective

Bičáková, Alena (contributor); … - 2008

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage...

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

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The forward premium puzzle and latent factors day by day

Bernoth, Kerstin; Hagen, Jürgen von; Vries, Casper G. de - 2010

We use futures instead of forward rates to study the complete maturity spectrum of the forward premium puzzle from two days to six months. At short maturities the slope coefficient is positive, but these turn negative as the maturity increases to the monthly level. Futures data allow us to...

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The relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable personal income in the US states : a fractional integration and cointegration analysis

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Cuñado Eizaguirre, Juncal; … - 2015

This study examines the relationship between healthcare expenditure and disposable income in the 50 US states over the period 1966-2009 using fractional integration and cointegration techniques. The degree of integration and nonlinearity of both series are found to vary considerably across...

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Linkages between the US and European stock markets : a fractional cointegration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2015

This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...

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Is smoking behavior culturally determined? : evidence from British immigrants

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Lillard, Dean R. - 2013

We exploit migration patterns from the UK to Australia, South Africa, and the US to investigate whether a person's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking trajectories over the life-course. For the UK, we use these...

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Child poverty dynamics in seven nations

Bradbury, Bruce; Jenkins, Stephen; Micklewright, John - 2000

This paper compares child poverty dynamics cross-nationally using panel data from seven nations: the USA, Britain … transition has led to a much higher degree of mobility. Interestingly, the USA, which has the highest level of relative poverty …Der vorliegende Beitrag vergleicht die Armutsdynamik bei Kindern mithilfe von Paneldaten aus sieben Ländern: USA …

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The personal distribution of income and imputed rent : a cross-national comparison for the UK, West Germany, and the USA

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2002

This article deals with income advantages derived from owner occupied housing (Imputed Rent, IR) and their impact on the personal income distribution. Following a brief description of different methods with which to calculate IR in household surveys, we conduct a cross-national comparative study...

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Do cross-national differences in the costs of children generate cross-national differences in fertility rates?

DiPrete, Thomas A.; Morgan, S. Philip; … - 2003

Parity-specific probabilities of having a next birth are estimated from national fertility data and are compared with nation-specific costs of having children as measured by time-budget data, by attitude data from the International Social Survey Program, and by panel data on labor earnings and...

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Sovereign bonds since Waterloo

Meyer, Josefin; Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2022

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. It compiles a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. The main insight is that, as in...

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