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What Remains after the Oil Boom is Over?
Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a positive shock on some males. The analyzed outcome is...
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Oil Price Shocks, Monetary Policy and Current Account Imbalances within a Currency Union
Baas, Timo - 2018
they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930946
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The Determinants of Crude Oil Prices : Evidence from ARDL and Nonlinear ARDL Approaches
Salem, Leila; Nouira, Ridha; Jeguirim, Khaled; Rault, … - 2022
This paper is an innovative attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of crude oil prices. The main objective is to distinguish between short- and long-term effects of some covariates on oil prices. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach is applied to daily series spanning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242432
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Mariani, Fabio - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154479
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829235
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Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations
Ordóñez Monfort, Javier - 2010
We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a driving force of labor market fluctuations. Then we develop and calibrate a modified version of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139698
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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2009
the world. We also find that the Iranian economy adjusts quite quickly to the shocks in foreign output and oil exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154980
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The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price : The Case of the GCC
Naufal, George - 2009
the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting countries in the world. We find that oil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158069
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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States
Dreger, Christian - 2014
In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055567
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Investigating the Asymmetric Impact of Oil Prices on GCC Stock Markets
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine; Ben Naceur, Sami; Kanaan, Oussama - 2021
This paper investigates the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price movements and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. We propose the implementation of nonlinear vector smooth transition regression (VSTR) models which offer a greater flexibility when modelling the possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314986