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What Calls to Arms? International Evidence on Interest Rates and the Choice of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages
Badarinza, Cristian - 2014
The relative popularity of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and fixed-rate mort- gages (FRMs) varies considerably both across countries and over time. We ask how movements in current and expected future interest rates affect the share of ARMs in total mortgage issuance. Using a nine-country...
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Innovativity : A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
Mohnen, Pierre; Mairesse, Jacques; Dagenais, Marcel - 2021
: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a …
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The "Austerity Myth" : Gain Without Pain?
Perotti, Roberto - 2011
Eurozone countries today) and two - Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency.All four episodes were associated with an … occurred because the sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large … detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many …
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Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes
Daysal, N. Meltem; Lovenheim, Michael; Siersbæk, Nikolaj; … - 2022
We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich … generous government programs in Denmark. We also present the first estimates of the effect of home prices on infant health. Our … families and with both children and child health being normal goods that are similarly-valued in the US and Denmark …
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Default Options and Insurance Demand
Robinson, Peter John; Botzen, W.J.W; Kunreuther, Howard; … - 2022
,187 homeowners, half of whom are in the Netherlands, where flood insurance penetration rates are low and recent flooding caused minor … among homeowners with little to no flood-related experience: in the Netherlands defaults increase the likelihood of insuring …
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Covid-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - 2021
We estimate the impact of COVID-19 on business failures for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) using firm-level data in seventeen countries. Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9.1 percentage points, representing 4.6 percent of private sector...
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Foreign Investment and Domestic Productivity : Identifying Knowledge Spillovers and Competition Effects
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2017
We study the impact of FDI on the productivity of host-country firms. FDI has positive spillovers only when foreign and domestic firms use similar technologies. Channeling FDI to sectors where firms share similar technology would significantly increase productivity spillovers from FDI. We show...
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Assessing the Age Specificity of Infection Fatality Rates for Covid-19 : Meta-Analysis & Public Policy Implications
Levin, Andrew T. - 2020
To assess age-specific infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID-19, we have conducted a systematic review of seroprevalence studies as well as countries with comprehensive tracing programs. Age-specific IFRs were computed using the prevalence data in conjunction with reported fatalities four...
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Child Penalties Across Countries : Evidence and Explanations
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
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