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The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2009
This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463446
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Private Sanctions
Hart, Oliver D.; Thesmar, David; Zingales, Luigi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We survey a representative sample of the U.S. population to understand stakeholders' desire to see their firms exit Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. 61% of respondents think that firms should exit Russia, regardless of the consequences. Only 37% think that leaving Russia is a purely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477220
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Alternative Monetary Policy Rules : A Comparison with Historical Settings for the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan
McCallum, Bennett T. - 2000
instrument and target variables. The time spans examined are 1962-1998 for the U.S. and U.K., and 1972-1998 for Japan. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471025
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G3 Exchange Rate Relationships : A Recap of the Record and a Review of Proposals for Change
Clarida, Richard H. - 1999
This paper is a recap of G3 exchange rate relationships since the collapse of Bretton Woods and an analysis of recent proposals for changing the way the G3 countries currently conduct exchange rate policy. We seek to understand these proposals in the context of the status quo monetary policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471348
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Use of (Time-Domain) Vector Autoregressions to Test Uncovered Interest Parity
Ito, Takatoshi - 1984
In this paper, a vector autoregression model (VAR) is proposed in order to test uncovered interest parity (UIP) in the foreign exchange market. Consider a VAR system of the spot exchange rate (yen/dollar), the domestic (US) interest rate and the foreign (Japanese) interest rate, describing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477593
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Wages and Prices Are Not Always Sticky : A Century of Evidence for the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 1982
empirical characterization of price and wage changes over the last century in the U.S., U.K., and Japan, in order to demonstrate … phenomenon rather than the universal fact implied by Okun. The results for the U.K. and Japan com- pound the conflict with Okun … particularly flexible in the U.S. during World War I and its aftermath, in Japan since 1914, and in the U.K. since the mid-1950s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478264
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Why U.S. Wage and Employment Behavior Differs from That in Britain and Japan
Gordon, Robert J. - 1981
.K. and Japan are between three and 15 times more flexible than in the U.S. during the postwar period. Corresponding to … similar to that in Britain and Japan. The contrast between the prewar data and the postwar data, where the U.S. is a definite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478304
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Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication
Cieslak, Anna - 2018
We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central banks and a comprehensive classification of events, we decompose news conveyed by central banks into news about monetary policy, economic growth, and separately, shocks to risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480685
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COVID-19 and SME Failures
Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020
We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost-minimization and measure each firm's liquidity shortfall during and after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481180
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Market Response to Policy Initiatives during the Global Financial Crisis
Aït-Sahalia, Yacine - 2010
United Kingdom, the euro area, and Japan during the recent crisis on interbank credit and liquidity risk premia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462841