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How can econometrics help fight the COVID-19 pandemic?

Alvarez, Kevin; Kreinovich, Vladik - In: Asian journal of economics and banking : AJEB 4 (2020) 3, pp. 29-36

Purpose - The current pandemic is difficult to model - and thus difficult to control. In contrast to the previous epidemics, whose dynamics were smooth and well described by the existing models, the statistics of the current pandemic are highly oscillating. The purpose of this paper is to...

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The importance of clarity : impacts of Colombia's Lenguaje Claro Program on reducing administrative burdens

Cuesta, Ana; Reyes, Angela; Roseth, Benjamin - 2019

unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies … in Latin America. It presents an impact evaluation of the Lenguaje Claro Program of Colombia’s National Planning … Department. A randomized control trial compared two versions of a letter - the original and one with plain language - used by the …

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Recession and India - Impact on Indian IT Industry

Khan, Saeed - 2014

In economics sense, recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a long period of time, or a business cycle contraction. During recessions, many macroeconomic indicators vary in a similar way. Production as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), employment, investment, spending,...

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Impact Investing 2.0 : Building the Impact Economy

Martin, Maximilian - 2020

This course focuses on “impact investing 2.0” and was taught at the University of St. Gallen in 2016. Excluding illiquid assets and cash, the World Wealth Report 2016 calculated that globally, 31% of high net worth investment portfolios are based on the concept of social gain. Over the past...

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Natural rate estimates differ : by how much?

Bethencourt, Carlos; Stadtmann, Georg - 2019

We examine the natural rate of unemployment estimates of two international organizations (OECD and European Commission) and various release dates. Since estimates differ to a large extent, empirical research results which use natural rate estimates will also vary depending on the data source...

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Assessing the effects of gender stereotype in STEM in a Brazilian university

Alvarenga, Camila; Braga, Cicero Augusto Silveira - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 25 (2024) 1, pp. 74-91

Purpose In Brazil, over 4.7 million women enrolled in university in the year 2017. However, Brazilian women have been consistently overrepresented in humanities and care majors and underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Given that observed gender differences...

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