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Patterns and Drivers of Health Spending Efficiency
García-Escribano, Mercedes; Juarros, Pedro; Mogues, Tewodaj - 2022
Demands for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high. Countries’ needs for additional health resources include responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, closing gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in health in most emerging and developing countries, and serving an...
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Health Spending in Japan : Macro-Fiscal Implications and Reform Options
Nozaki, Masahiro - 2014
Health spending has risen rapidly in Japan. We find two-thirds of the spending increase over 1990–2011 resulted from ageing, and the rest from excess cost growth. The spending level will rise further: ageing alone will raise it by 3½ percentage points of GDP over 2010–30, and excess cost...
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A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis
Moreau, Flavien; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2021
We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …
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Pooling Fiscal Risk in the ECCU : Quantifying Savings of a Regional Fund for Stabilization and Investment
Guerson, Alejandro - 2022
This paper quantifies the savings obtained from risk pooling with a Regional Stabilization Fund (RSF) for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. A Monte Carlo experiment is used to estimate the size of a RSF conditional on probabilities of depletion under specific saving-withdrawal rules. Results...
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The Sooner (and the Smarter), the Better : COVID-19 Containment Measures and Fiscal Responses
Hosny, Amr - 2021
This paper finds empirical evidence that faster and smarter containment measures were associated with lower fiscal responses to the COVID-19 shock. We also find that initial conditions, such as fiscal space, income, health preparedness and budget transparency were important in shaping the amount...
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Economic Activity, Fiscal Space and Types of COVID-19 Containment Measures
Pallara, Kevin; Hosny, Amr - 2022
This paper argues that the type of COVID-19 containment measures affects the trade-offs between infection cases, economic activity and sovereign risk. Using local projection methods and a year and a half of high-frequency daily data covering 44 advanced and emerging economies, we find that smart...
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Exiting from Lockdowns : Early Evidence from Reopenings in Europe
Franks, Jeffrey R.; Gruss, Bertrand; Mulas Granados, Carlos - 2021
European authorities introduced stringent lockdown measures in early 2020 to reduce the transmission of COVID-19. As the first wave of infection curves flattened and the outbreak appeared controlled, most countries started to reopen their economies albeit using diverse strategies. This paper...
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A Mexican State-Level Perspective on COVID-19 and its Economic Fallout
Cuesta Aguirre, Juan Pablo; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2021
Mexico has had one of the highest death tolls from Covid-19 and among the largest declines in output compared to peers. This paper utilizes data on Mexico's thirty-two states to better understand the relationship between health and economic outcomes. For instance, did the states with worse...
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Information and Inequality in the Time of a Pandemic
Dizioli, Allan; Pinheiro, Roberto - 2021
We introduce two types of agent heterogeneity in a calibrated epidemiological search model. First, some agents cannot afford staying home to minimize their virus exposure, while others can. Our results show that these poor agents bear most of the epidemic's health costs. Moreover, we show that...
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Good Will Hunting : Do Disasters Make Us More Charitable?
Cevik, Serhan - 2023
Humans are usually compassionate, caring and empathetic toward others, but are we really hardwired for altruism when a disaster hits? There is evidence that people exposed to natural disasters tend to behave more philanthropically, but most studies rely on small-scale surveys and experimental...
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