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Public acceptability of population-level interventions to reduce alcohol consumption: A discrete choice experiment
Pechey, Rachel; Burge, Peter; Mentzakis, Emmanouil; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 113 (2014) C, pp. 104-109
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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Industrial policies in Colombia
Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Perry, Guillermo - 2010
This paper surveys and analyzes industrial policies in Colombia, finding extensive use of productive development policies (PDPs) and despite claims of only moderate government intervention. Rarely explicitly associated with the need to address market failures, PDPs are instead associated with...
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Challenges of exporting differentiated products to developed countries : the case of SME-dominated sectors in a semi-industrialized country
Artopoulos, Alejandro; Friel, Daniel; Hallak, Juan Carlos - 2010
This paper surveys four Argentinean industries light ships, television programs, wines, and wooden furniture that have experienced substantial export growth in recent years, particularly to developed countries. The case studies first describe the structure of the industries, then characterize...
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Konjunkturanalyse for Bornholm, 1987 til 1996. Kapitel 3: arbejdsmarkedet på Bornholm 1987 til 1996
Lund, Lars - 2001
Using the seminal work of Blanchard and Katz on regional development as a frame a small number of macro economic key figures are looked upon for Bornholm, the Capital Area and the country. The model used is presented and even though the analysed time period is short, a comparison is made with...
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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001
While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. The same good is produced in the formal and in the informal sector. Moral...
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Participation Constraints in the Stock Market: Evidence from Unexpected Inheritance due to Sudden Death
Andersen, Steffen; Meisner Nielsen, Kasper - 2010
We use a natural experiment to investigate the impact of participation constraints on individuals' decisions to invest in the stock market. Unexpected inheritance due to sudden deaths results in exogenous variation in financial wealth and allows us to examine whether fixed entry and ongoing...
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Asset Pricing, Habit Memory, and the Labor Market
Jaccard, Ivan - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
This study finds that a model with internal habit memory allowsto simultaneously explain a series of business cycle and asset pricing puzzles. Compared to the literature, the equity premium puzzle can be resolved in a model with endogenous labor, without giving rise to excessive risk free rate...
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Strategic Asset Allocation, Asset Price Dynamics, and the Business Cycle
Jaccard, Ivan - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007
addition to consumption and dividends, both prices and portfolio decisions are allowed to be endogenously determined within a …
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Macroeconomic effects of credit deepening in Latin America
Carvalho, Carlos Viana de; Pasca, Nilda Mercedes Cabrera; … - 2014
generates only modest abovetrend growth in consumption, investment, and GDP. Since Brazil has experienced one of the most …
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Disasters and the networked economy : a book summary
Albala-Bertrand, José M. - 2014
This document summarizes the thrust of my monograph book Disasters and the Networked Economy (2003, NY: Routledge. 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-66629-9). It is no substitution for the book, but it attempts to make salient the main concepts, explanations and conclusions of it. It does so by first...
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