In this paper a model for estimating the reduction of the probability of premature death emanating from a transport infrastructure investment is developed. As a starting point a reference probability of premature death is arbitrarily chosen and two measures of estimating the value of life saving...

This paper provides an analysis of the long-run relationships and short-run dynamics between stock prices and exchange rates as well as the channels through which exogenous shocks influence these markets. We use monthly data for the period January 1980 to February 2009 for four Latin America,...

This paper examines long-run relationships between four Latin America stock markets and a mature stock market that of the US. We estimate both the autoregressive and moving average representations of a VAR model as suggested by Johansen [Johansen, S. (1988). Statistical analysis of cointegrating...