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This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (ΕPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
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in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI …
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in levels of fatal risk. The paper contrasts VSL estimates from conventional analysis with the bounds obtained under this …
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We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross … decomposing income risk. The approach is used to investigate the changes in income risk in Britain across the inequality growth …
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-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment Sample (IABS). We then relate these robust measures of earnings risk to the … risk attitudes of individuals working in these occupations. We find that willingness to take risk is positively correlated …
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-reported importance of religion and on the risk of youths having early sexual intercourse, drinking underage, trying cigarettes, trying … Probability Weighted Regression Adjustment estimation methods – which provide causal estimates conditional on selection on …
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-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived hazards of work accidents as a risk variable, evidence for compensating wage …
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We study workers' idiosyncratic earnings risk over the life-cycle using a German administrative data set. Positive and … incomplete markets model. Moreover, age-varying risk implies a linear increase in consumption inequality late in working life …
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