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International Banking and Liquidity Risk Transmission : Lessons from Across Countries

Buch, Claudia M. - 2014

studies conducted in eleven countries to explore liquidity risk transmission. Among the main results is, first, that … explanatory power of the empirical model is higher for domestic lending than for international lending. Second, how liquidity risk … management across global banks can be important for liquidity risk transmission into lending. Fourth, there is substantial …

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Are Small Farms Really more Productive than Large Farms?

Sanchez, Fernando M. Aragon - 2019

We revisit the long-standing empirical evidence of an inverse relationship between farm size and productivity using rich microdata from Uganda. We show that farm size is negatively related to yields (output per hectare), as commonly found in the literature, but positively related to farm...

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Estimating the Impact of Climate Change on Crop Yields : The Importance of Nonlinear Temperature Effects

Schlenker, Wolfram - 2008

The United States produces 41% of the world's corn and 38% of the world's soybeans, so any impact on US crop yields will have implications for world food supply. We pair a panel of county-level crop yields in the US with a fine-scale weather data set that incorporates the whole distribution of...

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Estimating the Impact of Crop Diversity on Agricultural Productivity in South Africa

Bellora, Cecilia - 2017

Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a probabilistic model based on ecological mechanisms to describe...

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External Validity in a Stochastic World

Rosenzweig, Mark - 2016

We examine the generalizability of internally valid estimates of causal effects in a fixed population over time when that population is subject to aggregate shocks. This temporal external validity is shown to depend upon the distribution of the aggregate shocks and the interaction between these...

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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Krebs, Tom - 2005

"This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers, and … three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in … various manufacturing sectors. Second, the estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are used to analyze the …

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Uncertainty and Labor Contract Durations

Rich, Robert - 2000

This paper provides an empirical investigation into the relationship between ex ante U.S. labor contract durations and uncertainty over the period 1970 to 1995. We construct measures of inflation uncertainty as well as aggregate nominal and real uncertainty. The results not only corroborate...

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Predictors of Mortality Among the Elderly

Hurd, Michael - 1999

The objective of this paper is to find the quantitative importance of some predictors of mortality among the population aged 70 or over. The predictors are socio-economic indicators (income, wealth and education), thirteen health indicators including a history of heart attack or cancer, and...

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Technology (and Policy) Shocks in Models of Endogenous Growth

Jones, Larry E. - 1999

Is there a trade-off between fluctuations and growth? The empirical evidence is mixed, with some studies (Kormendi and Meguire (1985)) finding a positive relationship, while others (Ramey and Ramey (1995)) finding the a negative one. Our objective in this paper is to understand how fundamental...

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Social Security and Demographic Uncertainty : The Risk Sharing Properties of Alternative Policies

Bohn, Henning - 1999

As the U.S. population ages, the growing retiree-worker ratio increases the burden of public retirement systems. Is it efficient to maintain a defined benefit social security system? Should PAYGO benefits be reduced and private retirement savings be encouraged? The paper examines these questions...

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