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types of debt and financial assets held conditional on holding the different types of debt and assets. The analysis suggests … amounts of both debt (unsecured and secured) and assets (property and non-housing), even after conditioning on the probability … the household balance sheet, i.e. liabilities and assets. Additionally, we allow the influence of social interaction on …
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unsecured debt and assets, as well as how social interaction influences the levels of unsecured debt, financial assets and net … worth held. Our findings suggest that social interaction has a positive influence upon the types of financial assets held … amount of financial assets held as well as the level of household net worth. In contrast, there appears to be no clear …
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We use individual level data from eight waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey during 1991–2011 to investigate age profiles of health expenditure for rural and urban residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Employing a two-part model, we find that health expenditure of rural...
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We make use of panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey between 1991 and 2006 to investigate whether health insurance increases out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure risk. We find that health insurance increases the probability of catastrophic OOP health expenditures using a series...
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We present an econometric analysis of three main channels (exchange rate channel, interest rate channel and credit channel) of the transmission mechanism of the monetary policy in Belarus. The analysis uses vector autoregressive models built on data from 2003 to 2014 and implemented via the...
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This paper presents several "ex ante" simulation exercises of the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Specifically, we estimate the probabilities of each national team advancing to different stages, using a basic Bayesian approach based on conjugate families. In particular, we use the Categorical-Dirichlet...
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El propósito principal de los sistemas de tarificación Bonus-Malus es que los asegurados paguen una prima justa, esto es la prima que corresponda a su propia experiencia de reclamación. Sin embargo, la mayoría de estos sistemas penalizan injustamente a determinados asegurados, haciéndoles...
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As various mobile contents can be delivered over mobile platform, mobile contents have been considered as new profit opportunities, Choices of mobile contents and mobile terminals are not independent but closely related. Accordingly, this paper analyses consumer preferences and correlations...
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This study develops a game-theoretic framework to examine the preservation and capitalization effects of government farmland preservation policies. More specifically, emphasis is given to the effects of such policies on the number and type of land buyers, the distribution of offer price, and the...
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The purpose of this paper is to quantify the role of financial frictions in Latvia's monetary transmission. Our model extends M. Iacoviello (9) framework along three dimensions. First, we introduce open-economy features by allowing imports of foreign consumer goods and borrowing from abroad....
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