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We study formal and informal insurance in Iraq using empirical data from a household survey. We study access to social security, health insurance, and retirement. Then, we examine the types of risks that Iraqi households face, and the informal coping mechanisms they use to deal with them. After...
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Asia, our study will show that good governance and tax exemption may be significant factors in increasing charitable giving …
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high ‘appetite’ for imports coming from Asia. We also assess the impact of the current crisis on Vietnam’s growth for the …
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Econometrics has strongly evolved in recent years on both the methodological level as well as in terms of applications …. This article presents the different econometric methods (time series econometrics, information panels, models of duration …,...) and their applications for the enterprise: demand analysis and forecasting of sales, financial econometrics, marketing and …
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In this paper we evaluate the respective effects of demographic change, changes in morbidity and changes in practices on growth in health care expenditures. We use microdata, i.e. representative samples of 3441 and 5003 French individuals observed in 1992 and 2000. Our data provide detailed...
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The intention of this article is to take advantage of recent discoveries in econometrics (ARCH processes) to …
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the efficiency of the repayment incentive mechanisms used for individual microcredit, the guarantor mechanism in particular. Little academic research has been devoted to this instrument whereas it is very frequently used. Churchill (1999) notably...
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Two agents sequentially contracts with different principals under moral hazard. If agents care for one another, the second principal gains by insuring them over first wages. Even with independent tasks, the first principal must offer riskier payments to induce effort.
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