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Looking Beyond TRIA : A Clinical Examination of Potential Terrorism Loss Sharing

Kunreuther, Howard - 2006

This paper provides an extensive series of empirical analyses of loss sharing under this program in 2005, and a prospective analysis for 2006. Using data collected on the top 451 insurers operating in the United States, we examine the impact of TRIA on loss sharing between the key stakeholders:...

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The Social Cost of Foreign Exchange Reserves

Rodrik, Dani - 2006

There has been a very rapid rise since the early 1990s in foreign reserves held by developing countries. These reserves have climbed to almost 30 percent of developing countries' GDP and 8 months of imports. Assuming reasonable spreads between the yield on reserve assets and the cost of foreign...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466719

Does the AIDS Epidemic Really Threaten Economic Growth?

Bloom, David E. - 1995

This study examines the claim that the AIDS epidemic will slow the pace of economic growth. We do this by examining the … prevalence of AIDS and the rate of growth of GDP per capita. Our analysis uses well- established empirical growth models to … control for a variety of factors possibly correlated with AIDS prevalence that might also influence growth. We also account …

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The portfolio flows of international investors

Froot, Kenneth; O'Connell, Paul G. J.; Seasholes, Mark S. - 1998

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The Bretton Woods international monetary system : an historical overview

Bordo, Michael D. - 1992

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Venture capital and other private equity : a survey

Metrick, Andrew; Yasuda, Ayako - 2010

"We review the theory and evidence on venture capital (VC) and other private equity: why professional private equity exists, what private equity managers do with their portfolio companies, what returns they earn, who earns more and why, what determines the design of contracts signed between (i)...

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Financial sector ups and downs and the real sector : big hindrance, little help

Aizenman, Joshua - 2011

"We examine how financial expansion and contraction cycles affect the broader economy through their impact on 8 real economic sectors in a panel of 28 countries over 1960-2005, paying particular attention to large, or sharp, contractions and magnifying and mitigating factors. Overall, the...

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Measuring ancient inequality

Milanovic, Branko - 2007

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...

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Internationalization and the evolution of corporate valuation

Levine, Ross - 2005

"By documenting the evolution of Tobin's "q" before, during, and after firms internationalize, this paper provides evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, we find that...

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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality? : some empirical evidence

Milanovic, Branko - 2005

-occupational and inter-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer …

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