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Intergenerational persistence in health in developing countries: The penalty of gender inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rawlings, Samantha - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in … terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and … region as well as across the distribution of maternal health. It uses comparable micro-data on as many as 2.24 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278543
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What is global excess liquidity, and does it matter?
Rüffer, Rasmus; Stracca, Livio - 2006
This paper endeavours to provide a comprehensive analysis of the nature and the possible importance of “global excess liquidity”, a concept which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The contribution of this paper is threefold. First, we present some conceptual discussion on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604742
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The determinants of selection and allocation decisions for health assistance: Which role do health indicators play?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
development assistance for health for the period of 1990 till 2007. The central question is to what extent health indicators …, reflecting the health objectives stated in the Millennium Development Goals, influence such decisions. The analysis reveals that … health indicators are important determinants of the selection and allocation process for health assistance but to a different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294362
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Do poor health conditions lead to higher allocation of development assistance?
Stepping, Katharina - 2012
This paper analyzes the targeting of development assistance for health across countries in a multivariate regression … characteristics and the donor-recipient-relationship are argued to be important determinants. The results show that health indicators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294391
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Gradients of the intergenerational transmission of health in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Rawlings, Samantha - 2009
This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … maternal and child health as well as in aggregate economic conditions. The country-level panel is exploited to control for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269601
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FDI and health in developed economies: A panel cointegration analysis
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2012
This paper examines the long-run effect of FDI on health in developed countries. Using panel cointegration techniques …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281032
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Does trade integration alter monetary policy transmission?
Cwik, Tobias J.; Müller, Gernot J.; Wolters, Maik H. - 2008
This paper explores the role of trade integrationor opennessfor monetary policy transmission in a medium-scale New Keynesian model. Allowing for strategic complementarities in price-setting, we highlight a new dimension of the exchange rate channel by which monetary policy directly impacts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303676
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Mitigating Double Taxation in an Open Economy
Lindhe, Tobias - 2001
The interaction of various methods of mitigating economic and international double taxation of corporate source income is studied within a standard neoclassical model of firm behavior. The main purpose is to determine to what extent methods effective in mitigating economic double taxation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321707
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Estimates of the open economy New Keynesian Phillips curve for euro area countries
Rumler, Fabio - 2005
This paper extends the existing literature on the open economy New Keynesian Phillips Curve by incorporating three different factors of production, domestic labor and imported as well as domestically produced intermediate goods, into a general model which nests existing closed economy and open...
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The European Monetary Union as a commitment device for new EU member states
Ravenna, Federico - 2005
This paper shows that the credibility gain from permanently committing to a fixed exchange rate by joining the European Monetary Union can outweigh the loss from giving up independent monetary policy. When the central bank enjoys only limited credibility a pegged exchange rate regime yields a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604562