This paper proposes a causal decomposition framework for settings in which an initial regime randomization influences the timing of a treatment duration. The initial randomization and treatment affect in turn a duration outcome of interest. Our empirical application considers the survival of...

"The purpose of the book will provide an update on African Animal Trypanosomiasis and tick-borne diseases and provide the latest empirical research findings in the area of African Animal Trypanosomiasis (Nagana) and tick-borne diseases affecting Livestock"--

This report estimates possible macroeconomic effects of a pandemic taking place in the EU in 2006, using a quarterly macroeconomic model. The macroeconomic costs of a pandemic, that is the cost in terms of production lost due to illness and death measured as reductions in GDP growth and/or...