Price of a dwelling consists of the physical structure together with the value of land upon which the house is build. Similarly, the growth rate of the price of a house is the weighted average of increase in the value of the structure and appreciation of land. The price of the structure is...

This study explores age- and gender-specific suicide mortality due to unemployment and economic crises, for 21 OECD countries over the period 1960 to 2011. The findings indicate that a higher unemployment rate leads to an increase in suicides in almost all age groups. Further, using dataset on...

Sleep has been shown to affect economic outcomes, including wages. The mechanisms by which sleep affect wages remain unclear. We examine the relationship between chronotype – morning larks, evening owls – and wages at mid-age. We propose a novel model relating chronotype to wages in...

We examine exchange rate pass-through into aggregate import prices for several industrialized countries in view of Taylor's (2000) suggestion that the degree of pass-through is dependent on importing country inflation. Extending the standard mark-up pricing model under monopolistic competition...

In this article, we propose to augment the traditional relationship between real exchange rates and real interest rates (RERI) by adding the stock market equilibrium condition to it. We introduce the relative dividend yield as the new information variable. In the empirical analysis, we use...