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An Epidemiological Model of Economic Crisis Spread Across Sectors in the United States
Janssens, Eva - 2018
This paper develops a discrete-time epidemiological model for the spread of economic crises across sectors in the United States for the period 1952-2015. It is the first to use an epidemiological approach with macroeconomic (Flow of Funds) data. An extension of the usual one-period Markov model...
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An epidemiological model of crisis spread across sectors in the United States
Janssens, Eva; Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeulen, … - 2018
This paper develops a discrete-time epidemiological model for the spread of crises across sectors in the United States for the period 1952-2015. It is the first to use an epidemiological approach with macroeconomic (Flow of Funds) data. An extension of the usual one-period Markov model to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794328
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Measuring the Cost of Living in Mexico and the US
Argente, David - 2020
consumer packaged goods matched at the barcode-level across two countries, United States and Mexico. We estimate that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823916
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The Domestic Transmission of International Shocks : Evidence from US and Mexican Mutual Funds
De Jesus, Miguel - 2018
In this study, I demonstrate that international mutual funds can cause temporary stock price deviations from fundamentals in the countries they have positions in. I show that US mutual funds massively sold their Mexican equity when the recent crisis was developing, which then led to the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930987
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Resolving the US Financial Crisis : Politics Dominates Economics in the New Political Economy
Kregel, Jan A. - 2011
resurgence of traditional Keynesian economics and a decline of what has come to be called “market fundamentalism." By contrast …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125344
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The focus of academic economics : before and after the crisis
Aigner, Ernest; Aistleitner, Matthias; Glötzl, Florentin; … - 2018
Has the global financial crisis of 2007ff had a visible impact on the economics profession? To answer this question we … changes in contemporary economics, although the topic of financial instability received increased attention after the crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011799120
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Determinants of the Corporate Decision to Disclose Social Information
Belkaoui, Ahmed; Karpik, Philip G. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 2 (1989) 1
The decision to disclose social information in annual reports is a voluntary one. A positive model of the factors that may influence firms′ decisions to disclose social information is proposed. It is hypothesised that the decision may be affected by (a) social performance, (b) political...
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NAFTA and its effects on the USA: revisited
Shahabuddin, Syed - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 4, pp. 388-406
member countries. NAFTA did improve the trade balance and foreign direct investment of Mexico. NAFTA also improved the trade …
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A case of 'No man's land' in economics: price indexes and their applications
Lizardi, Carlos Guerrero De - In: International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education 5 (2014) 2, pp. 144-156
Even though price indexes are one of the great inventions of economics, the theory of index numbers and its … the best minds over the years. Therefore, it seems that in economics, theory of price indexes and its applications … relevance using as an example the measurement of the multidimensional poverty in Mexico. …
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Confronting the Robinson Crusoe paradigm with household-size heterogeneity
Koulovatianos, Christos; Schröder, Carsten; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2008
Modern macroeconomics empirically addresses economy-wide incentives behind economic actions by using insights from the way a single representative household would behave. This analytical approach requires that incentives of the poor and the rich are strictly aligned. In empirical analysis a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298407