Measuring Healthcare Quality - Paradigm of Medqual. [PDF]
Acta Clin Croat, 2018 Musa-Juroš K +5 more
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Identifying Volatility Risk Premium from Fixed Income Asian Options [PDF]
We provide approximation formulas for at-the-money asian option prices to extract volatility risk premium from a joint dataset of bonds and option prices. The dynamic model generates stochastic volatility and a time-varying volatility risk premium, which
Caio Ibsen R. Almeida +1 more
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Thinking about My Existence during COVID-19, I Feel Anxiety and Awe-The Mediating Role of Existential Anxiety and Life Satisfaction on the Relationship between PTSD Symptoms and Post-Traumatic Growth. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Tomaszek K, Muchacka-Cymerman A.
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Risk sharing with the monarch: Excusable defaults and contingent debt in the age of Philip II, 1556-1598 [PDF]
Contingent sovereign debt can create important welfare gains. Nonetheless, there is almost no issuance today. Using hand-collected archival data, we examine the first known case of large-scale use of state-contingent sovereign debt in history.
Joachim Voth, Maurizio Drelichman
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Neoliberalism in Latin America: effects on health system reforms. [PDF]
Rev Saude Publica, 2020 Göttems LBD, Mollo MLR.
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Building Confidence Intervals with Block Bootstraps for the Variance Ratio Test of Predictability [PDF]
This paper compares different versions of the multiple variance ratio test based on bootstrap techniques for the construction of empirical distributions.
Benjamin Miranda Tabak +1 more
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The Dynamic Relationship between Stock Prices and Exchange Rates: evidence for Brazil [PDF]
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between stock prices and exchange rates in the Brazilian economy. We use recently developed unit root and cointegration tests, which allow endogenous breaks, to test for a long run relationship between these ...
Benjamin M. Tabak
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C-reactive protein in adult sepsis: systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]
Clinics (Sao Paulo)Silvinato A +6 more
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Optimal Monetary Rules: The Case of Brazil [PDF]
Within a dynamic programming approach we derive an optimal rule for the central bank to attain it's inflation targeting goals. The short-run nominal interest rate is used as an instrument to achieve monetary objectives.
Benjamin Miranda Tabak +3 more
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