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Height and well-being amongst older Europeans

Denny, Kevin - 2010

This paper uses a cross-country representative sample of Europeans over the age of 50 to analyse whether individuals' height is associated with higher or lower levels of well-being. Two outcomes are used: a measure of depression symptoms reported by individuals and a categorical measure of life...

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Handedness and depression : evidence from a large population survey

Denny, Kevin - 2008

This paper uses a new large population survey from twelve European countries to measure the association between handedness and depression. It is found that that depressive symptoms are significantly higher amongst left-handed men. While 19% of right handed men report experiencing depressive...

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Has subjective general health declined with the economic crisis? : a comparison across European countries

Denny, Kevin - 2015

This note examines whether subjective general health in Europe has changed since the onset of the economic crisis. Subjective general health for Ireland, Spain and Portugal is compared before and after the onset of the recession. Two other European economies, Germany and United Kingdom, are also...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496207

How does risk flow in the credit default swap market?

D'Errico, Marco; Battiston, Stefano; Peltonen, Tuomo; … - 2016

We develop a framework to analyse the Credit Default Swaps (CDS) market as a network of risk transfers among counterparties. From a theoretical perspective, we introduce the notion of flow-of-risk and provide sufficient conditions for a bow-tie network architecture to endogenously emerge as a...

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Mapping the interconnectedness between EU banks and shadow banking entities

Abad, Jorge; D'Errico, Marco; Killeen, Neill; Luz, Vera; … - 2017

This paper provides a unique snapshot of the exposures of EU banks to shadow banking entities within the global … challenging when shadow banking entities are domiciled in different jurisdictions. The analysis shows that many of the EU banks …' exposures are towards non-EU entities, particularly US-domiciled shadow banking entities. At the individual level, banks …

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