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Misfortune and Mistake : The Financial Conditions and Decision-making Ability of High-cost Loan Borrowers

Carvalho, Leandro - 2019

("misfortunes") or imperfect decisions ("mistakes"). Bank records from Iceland show borrowers are especially illiquid just before …

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The Effect of the Economic Collapse in Iceland on the Probability of Cardiovascular Events

Birgisdóttir, Kristín H. - 2018

We explore whether the 2008 economic collapse in Iceland and subsequent economic crisis affected the probability of …

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Identification and Estimation of Undetected COVID-19 Cases Using Testing Data from Iceland

Aspelund, Karl M. - 2020

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, international testing efforts tended to target individuals whose symptoms and/or jobs placed them at a high presumed risk of infection. Testing regimes of this sort potentially result in a high proportion of cases going undetected. Quantifying this...

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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from PIRLS

Ammermueller, Andreas - 2006

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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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Monetary Policy, and Real Exchange Rates : Iceland and the 2008 Crisis

Edwards, Sebastian; Cabezas, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use detailed data for Iceland to examine two often-neglected aspects of the "exchange rate pass-through" problem … price indexes in Iceland for 2003-2019, a period that includes Iceland's banking and currency crisis of 2008. We find that … the pass-through declined around the time Iceland reformed its "flexible inflation targeting," and that the coefficients …

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The gift of moving : intergenerational consequences of a mobility shock

Nakamura, Emi; Jósef Sigurdsson; Jón Steinsson - 2016

We exploit a volcanic “experiment" to study the costs and benefits of geographic mobility. We show that moving costs (broadly defined) are very large and labor therefore does not flow to locations where it earns the highest returns. In our experiment, a third of the houses in a town were...

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Monnet's Error?

Guiso, Luigi - 2015

Entering a currency union without any political union European countries have taken a gamble: will the needs of the currency union force a political integration (as anticipated by Monnet) or will the tensions create a backlash, as suggested by Kaldor, Friedman and many others? We try to answer...

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Lifecycle Effects of a Recession on Health Behaviors : Boom, Bust, and Recovery in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2015

This study uses individual-level longitudinal data from Iceland, a country that experienced a severe economic crisis in …

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Are Recessions Good for Your Health Behaviors? Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Iceland

Ásgeirsdóttir, Tinna Laufey - 2012

This study exploits the October 2008 economic crisis in Iceland to identify the effects of a macroeconomic downturn on …

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