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Insurance Expansion During Pregnancy

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze how the abolition of cost‐sharing in health insurance affects pregnant women's gross spending on health care services using an exogenous policy change in Switzerland. Using non‐linear regression, we find that the policy slightly increases average gross spending, contrasting policymaker expectations of no impact on demand.
Philip Hochuli, Christian P. R. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions, trade, and growth : revisiting the evidence [PDF]

Several recent papers have attempted to identify the partial effects of trade integration and institutional quality on long-run growth using the geographical determinants of trade and the historical determinants of institutions as instruments.
Dollar, David, Kraay, Aart
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Probability Theory Compatible with the New Conception of Modern Thermodynamics. Economics and Crisis of Debts

, 2012
We show that G\"odel's negative results concerning arithmetic, which date back to the 1930s, and the ancient "sand pile" paradox (known also as "sorites paradox") pose the questions of the use of fuzzy sets and of the effect of a measuring device on the ...
A. A. Abrikosov, A. A. Vlasov, A. A. Vlasov, A. M. Vershik, A. N. Kolmogorov, A. Noy, B. D. Summ, B. v. d. Pol, D. Yu. Ivanov, E. A. Guggenheim, E. M. Apfelbaum, E. M. Apfel’baum, F. Gahvari, G. Alefeld, G. G. Ryabov, G. Hummer, G. L. Litvinov, G. L. Litvinov, H. Poincaré, I. A. Kvasnikov, I. A. Molotkov, I. Fisher, J. A. Goguen, J. M. Calo, K. G. Wilson, K. I. Shmulovich, L. A. Zadeh, L. A. Zadeh, L. D. Landau, L. D. Landau, M. Schönberg, M. Schönberg, N. Kurzeja, R. Balescu, R. P. Feynman, S. Joseph, S. M. Stishov, T. L. Hill, V. Kreinovich, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. P. Maslov, V. V. Kozlov, V. V. Sychev, W. Wagner, Yu. G. Pavlenko   +72 more
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Global Burden of Disease Due to High Body Mass Index and Projections to 2040: A Study Based on the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) contributes to an increased risk of various diseases. This study aimed to identify global disease burden trends associated with high BMI from 1990 to 2019 and forecasts up to 2040. Methods Using data from the global burden of disease (GBD) 2019 study, we analysed the number and ratio of ...
Eun‐Ji Kim, Yoonseo Park, Sewon Park, Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Munjae Lee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Connectedness Structure and Volatility Dynamics Between BRICS Markets and International Volatility Indices: An Investigation

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research aims to explore and understand the dynamic nature of volatility connectedness between BRICS stock markets and various asset price implied volatility indices through a TVP‐VAR broadened connectedness approach. Results display nontrivial dynamic connectedness in the BRICS stock markets and uncertainties in different markets during ...
Halilibrahim Gökgöz, Salha Ben Salem, Azza Bejaoui, Ahmed Jeribi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering Women to Lead Cybersecurity: The Effect of Female Executives on Disclosure Sentiment

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the impact of gender diversity (i.e., the presence of female executives on corporate boards) on the sentiment of cybersecurity information disclosure, including its likelihood, magnitude, and tone. We develop a unique dataset providing an extensive view of the development and evolution of cybersecurity‐related ...
Marwa Elnahass, Yousry Ahmed, Vu Quang Trinh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating the value to the UK of education exports [PDF]

, 2011
London Economics is one of Europe's leading specialist economics and policy consultancies and has its head office in London. We also have offices in Brussels, Dublin, Cardiff and Budapest, and associated offices in Paris and Valletta.
Conlon, Gavan, Litchfield, Annabel, Sadlier, Greg   +2 more
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The Credit Channel of Monetary Transmission in the US: Is It a Bank Lending Channel, a Balance Sheet Channel or Both or Neither?

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We develop a theoretical framework that extends the Bernanke and Blinder model to incorporate imperfect substitution between internal and external finance of firms to study the operation of both the bank lending and the balance sheet channels of monetary transmission in the US.
Sophocles N. Brissimis, Michalis‐Panayiotis Papafilis   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Primer on Profit Maximization [PDF]

, 2011
Although textbooks in intermediate microeconomics and managerial economics discuss the first-order condition for profit maximization (marginal revenue equals marginal cost) for pure competition and monopoly, they tend to ignore the second-order condition
Carbaugh, Robert, Prante, Tyler
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A Learning Model with Memory in the Financial Markets

International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Learning is central to a financial agent's aspiration to gain persistent strategic advantage in asset value maximisation. The implicit mechanism that transforms this aspiration into an observed value gain is the speed of error corrections (demonstrating, an agent's speed of learning) whilst facing increased uncertainty.
Shikta Singh, Supun Chandrasena, Yue Shi, Abdullah Alhussaini, Claude Diebolt, Martin Enilov, Tapas Mishra   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source