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Consumer confidence and household investment

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Can consumer confidence account for the leading indicator property of household investment (HI) over the US business cycle? We find that it does. Consumer confidence leads HI and housing starts by two and one‐quarter, respectively. Household investment increases persistently after a positive confidence shock, and so do total hours worked ...
Hashmat Khan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential economy-wide impacts of an African swine fever outbreak in the United States. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Vet Sci
de Menezes TC   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global shocks and the debt‐growth nexus

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper re‐examines the relationship between debt and growth with and without the influence of global shocks for a panel of 22 economies. The analysis introduces an approach that accounts for the complexity of global factors and estimates the debt‐to‐growth and growth‐to‐debt nexus for household, corporate, and public debt from a purely ...
Fabrizio Casalin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric sanctions and corruption: Theory and practice in China

open access: yesEconomic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Asymmetric punishment of partners in crime, intended to incentivize whistle‐blowing, may increase detection and deterrence. The idea is age‐old but its use against corruption is not frequent. We study a 1997 Chinese reform that strengthened such asymmetries for some forms of bribery.
Maria Perrotta Berlin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The global macroeconomic burden of diabetes mellitus. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Med
Chen S   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Broke Autocrats, Broken Elections: Trade Shocks and Electoral Fraud in Autocracies

open access: yesEconomics &Politics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We argue that when terms‐of‐trade (ToT) shocks reduce resource rents, autocrats lose the fiscal capacity to sustain loyalty through patronage and increasingly rely on electoral manipulation as a survival strategy. We present a simple model in which rents finance patronage in normal times, while adverse shocks reduce the effectiveness of ...
Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou
wiley   +1 more source

The power of bridging decision scales: Model coupling for advanced climate policy analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesProc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Filatova T   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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