cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …

A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The … of the relationship between business cycles and mortality are highly sensitive to assumptions related to migration. After … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

individuals' subjective believes of their mortality risk. Previous studies have shown that individual responses on subjective …

economic theory in which the permanent component represents real influences, while the transitory component represents …

verified. Then, we examine whether the non-stationary CDS and bond spreads series are bound by a cointegration relationship …. Overall the cointegration analysis confirms that the two prices should be equal to each other in equilibrium, as theory …This analysis tests the price discovery relationship between sovereign CDS premia and bond yield spreads on the same …

We examine whether there is a flight-to-liquidity premium in Treasury bond prices by comparing them with prices of …