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Hurricane‐induced risk contagion in commercial real estate: Evidence from Hurricane Sandy

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how hurricane‐induced destruction affects the prices of nearby undamaged commercial real estate properties, using Hurricane Sandy as a natural experiment. Using Real Capital Analytics transaction records spatially merged with Federal Emergency Management Agency building‐level damage data, we empirically employ a difference ...
Lu Fang, Lingxiao Li, David Scofield, Abdullah Yavas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food, Affluence and the Consumption Basket*

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, EarlyView.
There are significant disparities across nations in incomes and spending. For example, consumers in the poorest countries spend more than half of their income on food, while in the richest, this is one‐tenth or less. We use data from the International Comparison Program for 176 countries to estimate cross‐country demand equations focusing on food and ...
Hai Long Vo, Kenneth W. Clements
wiley   +1 more source

‘Standard KAMs’, ‘Canary KAMs’, and ‘Naughty KAMs’: A Typology of Key Audit Matters to Explain Their Value Relevance

Abacus, EarlyView.
This paper develops a framework for understanding how key audit matters (KAMs) can be factored into investors’ risk assessments. Detailed interviews with seasoned investors representing international and regional asset managers and owners confirm that the number and type of reported KAMs are not ‘priced’ directly.
Warren Maroun, Alan Duboisée De Ricquebourg, Dusan Ecim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The EU real exchange rates: A structural Bayesian VAR. A note.

Revista de Economía y Estadística, 2018
In this paper we contribute to the long literature on the real exchange determination by estimating a Bayesian structural vector autoregressive model.
Juan C. Cuestas
doaj  

How did Japan catch‐up with the West? Some implications of recent revisions to Japan's historical growth record

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Revised GDP data suggest that Japan was more than one‐third richer in 1874 than suggested by Maddison, and that Meiji period growth built on earlier development. Despite trend GDP per capita growth during the Tokugawa Shogunate, the catching‐up process only started after 1890 with respect to Britain, and after World War I with respect to the ...
Stephen Broadberry, Kyoji Fukao, Tokihiko Settsu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exchange Rate Volatility and Purchasing Power Parity: Does Euro Make Any Difference?

The International Journal of Banking and Finance, 2010
This paper provides a new test of the purchasing power parity (PPP) and its relevance for the Euro. Principal component analysis (PCA) is employed to construct a pooled measure of inflation for 12 Euro-currency countries. This measure is used to test the
Meher Manzur, Felix Chan
doaj  

Purchasing power parity in Mexico: a historical note [PDF]

Purchasing power parity has been the subject of many empirical studies. Much of this work has focused on recent history in developed countries. This paper reports results of tests for nonlinear, mean reversion of the real exchange rate for a less ...
Wallace, Frederick
core   +1 more source

Monetary integration and purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the development of purchasing power parity between Singapore and Britain during the 19th century. Using new monthly data from 1831 to 1872, it finds that real exchange rates became more stable after the late 1850s. This convergence was supported by growing connections in international bullion markets, which reduced exchange
Atsushi Kobayashi
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond health protection: Estimating the impact of public health insurance on home‐based livestock raising in rural China

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Livestock often serves as self‐insurance against health shocks for rural households in developing countries. However, little is known about how public health insurance affects livestock production decisions. This paper fills the gap by examining the impact of China's New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS) on household‐level livestock ...
Ran Li
wiley   +1 more source

Re-examination of the long-run purchasing power parity: further evidence from Turkey [PDF]

In this article, we re-examine the empirical validity of the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) theory for the Turkish economy. For this purpose, an empirical model is constructed using some contemporaneous estimation techniques such as multivariate co ...
Aslan, Özgür, Korap, Levent
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