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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...

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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization

Rousseau, Peter L.; Sylla, Richard - 2021

formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that … that the growth and increasing globalization of these economies might indeed have been 'finance-led.' …

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Political Risk Versus Market Risk in Social Security

Shoven, John B. - 2010

Pay-as-you-go Social Security is typically characterized as a universal defined benefit pension program. Implicit in this characterization is a sense that the participant%u2019s investment in future benefits is somehow guaranteed, or safe from risk. This study develops the concept of...

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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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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Steier, Lloyd - 2013

, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France … groups, trust, institutional transplants, and politics in institutional evolution and financial development. Other themes are …

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Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2014

This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...

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Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy : Observations from Six Industrialized Countries

Bernanke, Ben; Mishkin, Frederic S. - 2021

Using a simple case study approach. this paper compares the conduct and performance of monetary policy in six Industrialized countries since the breakup of the Bretton Woods system. Our purpose is to develop fruitful hypotheses that might usefully be explored in subsequent, more formal research....

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