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discrete choice experiment provides a novel investigation of the acceptability of different interventions to reduce alcohol … consumption and the effect of information on expected effectiveness, using a UK general population sample of 1202 adults. Policy … options included high, medium and low intensity versions of: Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) for alcohol; reducing numbers of …
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Going forward, Korea faces two closely related challenges: sustaining economic growth against the backdrop of a rapidly aging population and ameliorating income inequality. This paper argues that a gradual increase in social spending could promote more sustainable and inclusive growth in Korea....
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countries' standards, keeping domestic consumption growth at surprisingly low levels. As a consequence, despite the size of its …
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procyclical vis-Ã-vis sending country income. Second, remittances tend to be spent on consumption of both imported and …
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frequency variation in technology. News shocks are positively correlated with consumption, stock price, and consumer confidence …
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This paper investigates whether there is a different impact from changes in quot;newquot; and quot;oldquot; economy stock valuations on private investment for seven OECD economies. A vector autoregressive model is estimated for each individual country, using quarterly data over the period...
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valuations on private consumption. Estimating a reduced-form VAR for seven OECD countries for the 1990s, it is found that the … impact from changes in old economy stock valuations on consumption is in general larger in the United States, Canada, and the … United Kingdom than in continental Europe. Furthermore, the impact from changes in new economy valuations to consumption is …
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This paper provides a model on how altruism, quot;attachmentquot; to the home country, and portfolio diversification may act as potential motives behind workers` remittances. It shows that the level of workers` remittances depends on how great are their degrees of altruism and...
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We empirically revisit the crowding-in effect of government spending on private consumption based on rolling windows of … U.S. data. Results show that in earlier samples government spending is increasingly crowding in private consumption … consumption in the utility function and rule-of-thumb consumers to assess the sources of non-monotonic changes in the transmission …
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Was the post-crisis growth slowdown in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (CESEE) structural or cyclical? We use three different methods--production function approach, basic multivariate filter, and multivariate filter with financial frictions--to evaluate potential growth and output gaps...
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