more intensive land-use. Introducing aspects of seasonality into a stylized Malthusian model, we unify two diverging views …

This paper analyzes the degree of persistence of the ex-post real interest rates of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India … ranging from July 2000 to December 2012, the results show very high persistence, and non-stationarity but mean reversion for … breaks were accounted for, the results indicate that part of the persistence found previously in the real interest rates of …

context, smart traders don't clearly emerge. There is clearly no performance persistence, neither for winners nor for loser …

persistence of unemployment. This might happen because the crisis ushered in recession to every country affected and, in the …

important in driving the strong persistence. Conditioning on fixed effects, a history of having hypertension has a very little … impact on current hypertension. The results also find that less educated people show more persistence of hypertension. …

We examine the level of persistence in the unemployment gap across both race and gender in the United States. The … empirical evidence suggests that all unemployment gaps exhibit low levels of persistence. While the gender unemployment gap has …

-three OECD countries. Our results indicate that there are substantial differences in the unemployment persistence for men and …