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Recession depression : mental health effects of the 2008 stock market crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748354
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Recession Depression : Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
McInerney, Melissa - 2013
How do sudden, large wealth losses affect mental health? Most prior studies of the causal effects of material well-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock market accumulations may not inform this question if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080729
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Financial Meltdown in 'Swing Hospitals' during the COVID-19 Outbreak
Takaku, Reo; Yokoyama, Izumi - 2021
Hospitals in Japan have complete autonomy in deciding whether to admit COVID-19 patients, similar to that of the US … COVID-19 patients among ''swing hospitals,'' where both options (to admit or to not admit COVID-19 patients) could … potentially be realized but to also evaluate the effect of government intervention on such hospitals. Our empirical results …
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COVID-19 Could Cause Bigger Cracks in Turkey’s Fragile Crisis Prone Economy
Taskinsoy, John - 2020
The cash strapped Turkey's gloomy economy was already ailing before the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic. The August rout of 2018 caused serious cracks as lira tumbled against the dollar (25% in three days and 41% in just two weeks); consequently, core inflation peaked at 26% and key interest rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832697
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The effect of the Great Recession on health : a longitudinal study of Irish mothers 2001-2011
Briody, Jonathan; Doyle, Orla; Kelleher, Cecily - 2019
The relationship between recessions and health is mixed, with some evidence from the most recent financial crisis finding a positive effect on heath behaviours. This study uses longitudinal data spanning the periods before, during and after the Irish crisis of 2008, to test the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063066
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The Crisis of the Divided Welfare State : Surprising Lessons from Europe
Smyrl, Marc E. - 2009
Typologies of welfare state regimes place France and Germany on the one hand, and the United States on the other in very different categories. All nevertheless share an essential feature: they traditionally depend on business for both the funding and management of health insurance. It is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205401
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Crisis: What's the Economic Alternative in Tunisia?
Fridhi, Bechir - 2020
Our article introduces a coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic impact on the economy from a variety of dimensions such as economic outlook, growth shock, the role of regulators and proposed long term strategies. This paper also analyzes the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299181
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Public expenditures on education and health in Georgia before and during the global crisis
Chitanava, Maka; Grigolia, Maya; Labadze, Lasha - 2011
After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009302741
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Greece in economic crisis : the case of health and education
Dassiou, Xeni - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 84 (2015) 3, pp. 145-164
In 2010 the Greek economy entered a deep economic crisis. This was the result of an accumulation of structural problems in the economy, including overspending and loss of competitiveness during the previous decades, translating into persistently large budget and trade deficits. In 2015, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498344
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Public Expenditures on Education and Health in Georgia Before and During the Global Crisis
Labadze, Lasha - 2011
After years of stagnation and political cataclysms, Georgia tried to recover by launching radical economic and political reforms starting in 2004. The results of the reforms appeared to be impressive. The country's GDP has more than doubled; the total volume of bank deposits is five times what it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122109