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Health's kitchen : TV, edutainment and nutrition

Principe, Francesco; Carrieri, Vincenzo - 2020

Does media exposure affect health behaviours? And how? We exploit the idiosyncratic switchover to digital television across Italian regions which exogenously increased the number of free view national channels and we link this to high-frequency data on the supply of food-related contents on the...

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Why do households forego high returns from technology adoption : evidence from improved cook stoves in Burkina Faso

Bensch, Gunther; Grimm, Michael; Peters, Jörg - 2014

Around 3 billion people in developing countries rely on woodfuels for their daily cooking needs with profound negative implications for their workload, health, and budget as well as the environment. Improved cookstove (ICS) technologies in many cases appear to be an obvious solution. Despite...

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International effects of euro area versus US policy uncertainty : a FAVAR approach

Belke, Ansgar; Osowski, Thomas - 2017

Building on the growing evidence on the importance of large data sets for empirical macroeconomic modeling, we estimate a large-scale FAVAR model for 18 OECD member countries. We quantify the global effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks and check whether the signs, the magnitude, and the...

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Cross-category, trans-Pacific spillovers of policy uncertainty and financial market volatility

Thiem, Christopher - 2018

Mit Hilfe von generalisierten Varianzdekompositionen aus Vektorautoregressionen untersuchen wir länder- und kategorieübergreifende Unsicherheits-Spillover-Effekte zwischen den USA und Japan. Dabei betrachten wir sowohl wirtschaftspolitische Unsicherheit (WPU) als auch Finanzmarktvolatilität....

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Cross-category spillovers of economic policy uncertainty

Thiem, Christopher - 2018

This paper analyses the interdependence of policy uncertainty from 1985 to 2017 across six different categories of US economic policy: Monetary, fiscal, healthcare, national security, regulatory, and trade policy. To this end, we apply the Diebold and Yilmaz (2012, 2014) connectedness index...

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Using internet data to account for special events in economic forecasting

Schmidt, Torsten; Vosen, Simeon - 2012

forecasts. This paper investigates whether Internet search data can improve economic predictions in times of special events. An … Suchanfragen im Internet, die zeitnah zur Verfügung stehen, verwendet werden können, um ungewöhnliche Ereignisse bei der Prognose …

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The impact of internet penetration on corporate income tax filing in South Africa

Lediga, Collen - 2020

internet access in the country, could have contributed to the less impact of the introduced administrative intervention … increase in the fraction of household areas with internet access by 10 percentage points, raises the fraction of businesses … introduction of e-filing services for tax returns submission, is dependent on the internet coverage of the area. …

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Less social health insurance - more private supplementary insurance? : empirical evidence from Germany

Augurzky, Boris (contributor); Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses individual level data to analyze the effect of changes in the compulsory benefit package of the German statutory health insurance scheme on the demand for private supplementary insurance. In particular, we aim at measuring the effect of excluding dentures from the benefit package...

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West-East convergence in the prevalence of illicit drugs : socioeconomics or culture?

Tauchmann, Harald (contributor) - 2008

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse. By analyzing individual data, we find that East-Germany largely...

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Demand, selection and patient outcomes in German acute care hospitals

Schwierz, Christoph; Augurzky, Boris; Focke, Axel; … - 2008

In times of peak demand hospitals may fail to deliver the high standard of treatment quality that they are able to offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We...

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