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The impact of community based health insurance schemes on out-of-pocket healthcare spending : evidence from Rwanda
Woldemichael, Andinet; Gurara, Daniel Zerfu; Shimeles, Abebe - 2019
on health-related financial risks using a nationally representative household survey data collected over a ten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009384
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Patterns and drivers of health spending efficiency
Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes; Juarros, Pedro; Tewodaj Mogues - 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 ageing...
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Health Care Cost Containment
Nedde, Ellen Marie - 1995
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Household debt, consumption, and monetary policy in Australia
Loukoianova, Elena; Wong, Yu Ching; Hussiada, Ioana - 2019
This paper discusses the evolution of the household debt in Australia and finds that while higher-income and higher … depending on the level of household debt. The results corroborate other work that households' response to monetary policy shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019787
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Household deleveraging and saving rates : a cross-country analysis
Bouis, Romain - 2021
Historically high household debt in several economies is calling for a deleveraging, but according to some economists …, this paper finds evidence of a negative relationship between changes of household debt-to-income ratios and saving rates … suggest that the economic cost associated with household deleveraging may be overestimated and motivate a deleveraging via …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796301
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Household debt and house prices-at-risk : a tale of two countries
Alter, Adrian; Mahoney, Elizabeth M. - 2020
. Supply-side drivers, valuation, household debt, and financial conditions jointly play a key role in forecasting house price …-level data, we identify households vulnerable to potential housing shocks and assess the riskiness of household debt …
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Debt service and default : calibrating macroprudential policy using micro data
Nier, Erlend W.; Popa, Radu; Shamloo, Maral; Voinea, Liviu - 2019
We provide empirical evidence to support the calibration of a limit on household indebtedness levels, in the form of a … recent regulation adopted by the National Bank of Romania, limiting the household DSTI at origination to 40 percent for new …
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Has higher household indebtedness weakened monetary policy transmission?
Gelos, Gaston; Grinberg, Federico; Mancini Griffoli, Tommaso - 2019
deteriorating household balance sheets? This paper examines the question using household data from the United States. It compares … the responsiveness of household consumption to monetary policy shocks in the pre- and post-crisis periods, relating … changes in monetary transmission to changes in household indebtedness and liquidity. The results show that the responsiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001512
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Understanding the macro-financial effects of household debt : a global perspective
Alter, Adrian; Feng, Alan Xiaochen; Valckx, Nico - 2018
We confirm the negative relationship between household debt and future GDP growth documented in Mian, Sufi, and Verner … relationship. First, debt overhang impairs household consumption when negative shocks hit. Second, increases in household debt … be systematically neglected due to investors' overoptimistic expectations associated with household debt booms. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878764
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Assessing macro-financial risks of household debt in China
Han, Fei; Jurzyk, Emilia; Guo, Wei; He, Yun; Rendak, Nadia - 2019
High household indebtedness could constrain future consumption growth and increase financial stability risks. This … paper uses household survey data to analyze both macroeconomic and finanical stability risks from the rapidly rising … household debt in China. We find that rising household indebtedness could boost consumption in the short term, while reducing it …
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