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Constructing divisia monetary aggregates for Singapore
Barnett, William A.; Nguyen, Van H. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 8, pp. 1-15
microeconomic aggregation or index number theory. However, most central banks in the world, including that of Singapore, the … Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), still report their monetary aggregates as simple summations. Recent macroeconomic … research about Singapore tends to focus on exchange rates as a monetary policy target but ignores the aggregate quantity of …
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The effects of environmental regulation on the Singapore stock market
Huy Pham; Long Thang Van Nguyen; Vikash Ramiah; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 12 (2019) 4/175, pp. 1-19
This study examines the impact of environmental regulation on the Singapore stock market using the event study … achieve their desired effects in Singapore in which several big polluters (including industrial metals and mining, forestry …
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A double-hurdle model of healthcare expenditures across income quintiles and family size : new insights from a household survey
Osmani, Ahmad Reshad; Okunade, Albert - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-21
The decision-making processes and outcomes of male and female household heads differ due to gender-based differences in preferences. In this paper, we assess the impact of this heterogeneity on household healthcare consumption in Thailand. Past studies modeling healthcare expenditures using...
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Empirical evidence regarding the impact of economic growth and inflation on economic sentiment and household consumption
Batrancea, Larissa - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 7, pp. 1-16
The dynamics of the interconnected global market and consumption behavior has recently changed considerably. Using a sample of 28 nations within the European Union, the study examined the degree to which economic growth and inflation impacted economic sentiment and household consumption during...
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Gender differences in intra-household financial decision-making : an application of coarsened exact matching
Booysen, Frederik; Guvuriro, Sevias - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 10, pp. 1-11
Most studies that explore collective models of intra-household decision-making use economic outcomes such as human capital, earnings, assets, and relative income shares as proxies of the relative distribution of bargaining power. These studies, however, fail to incorporate important measures of...
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Children and life-cycle consumption
Grant, Charles B. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-28
This paper investigates the role of children in explaining the life-cycle pattern of consumption (which is hump-shaped since it is higher in the middle of life and lower at the beginning and end of life). Unlike previous studies, a true panel of U.K. households was exploited to investigate...
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The labour market effects of international trade in the presence of vertical product differentiation : some methodological remarks in retrospect
Celi, Giuseppe - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 3/109, pp. 1-26
The paper retrospectively analyses the issue of the impact of international trade on developed countries' labour markets in the 1990s, when the majority of academic opinion denied the role of trade in the misfortunes of unskilled workers. An analytical framework is proposed in which...
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Italexit and the impact of immigrants from Italy on the Italian labor market
Bratu, Mihaela - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/14, pp. 1-14
Considering the recent debates regarding Brexit and the potential negative effects of immigrants on Italian labor market, the main aim of this paper is to assess the impact of immigrants from Italy on the labor market of this country using econometric techniques. Based on these results, one...
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Minimum wage changes across provinces in China : average treatment effects on employment and investment decisions
Luo, Ji; Henderson, Daniel J. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 1/22, pp. 1-16
We exploit data from the China Household Finance Survey to examine the impact of changes in the minimum wage on employment and investment decisions. We are able to non-parametrically identify the average treatment effect on the treated via exogenous variation in the minimum wage across...
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On the association between insurance deductibles and prevention behaviour : evidence from the Swiss health system
Courbage, Christophe; Nicolas, Christina - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 4, pp. 1-15
Many studies have attempted to investigate the drivers of preventive behaviour. This study contributes to this strand of literature by examining the association between higher insurance deductibles in the Swiss health system and preventive behaviour that allows for maintaining a good diet,...
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