This article studies how electoral processes and internal factors of the Ecuadorian economy affect the dynamics of the country's business expectations. The hypothesis that the free market and socialist political models in an economy generate different reactions in the expectations of the agents,...

This paper presents evidence on how mortality in Denmark is related to different socio-economic indicators. By use of unique and extensive sample of the Danish population, we examine how mortality is related to factors such as education, occupation, skill level and income for the years 1992-97....

We model panel data of crime careers of juveniles from a Dutch Judicial Juvenile Institution. The data are decomposed into a systematic and an individual-specific component, of which the systematic component reflects the general time-varying conditions including the criminological climate....