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ObjectiveTo understand the health utility value and its influencing factors among adult residents in Zhejiang province, and to provide a reference for health policy formulation and evaluation.
Pinyuan DAI +7 more
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Governance Drivers of Fossil Fuel Divestment: Evidence From Global Banks
ABSTRACT Climate change poses increasing transition risks for the banking sector, as financial institutions remain exposed to fossil fuel activities despite growing sustainability commitments. This study examines whether corporate governance influences banks' decisions to adopt fossil fuel divestment policies.
Rosella Carè +3 more
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ABSTRACT The increasing salience of climate change has intensified attention to the roe of ESG ratings in shaping firms' green innovation. We examine the link between ESG performance and green innovation, highlighting the role of participation in global innovation networks.
Miaomiao Tao +3 more
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An Analysis of the Determinants of Job Satisfaction when Individuals’ Baseline Satisfaction Levels May Differ [PDF]
A growing literature seeks to explain differences in individuals’ self-reported satisfaction with their jobs. Most of the accumulated evidence so far has, however, been based on cross-sectional data and when panel data have been used, individual ...
Anna Cristina D’Addio +2 more
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Earthquake and Tsunami NaTech Risk Assessment for Oil Storage Facilities
ABSTRACT Interaction of natural and technological hazards (NaTech) events, such as tsunamis and earthquakes, can affect industrial facilities such as those featuring anchored atmospheric storage tanks. Consequences of natural events on this kind of installation may include the release of hazardous substances, which in turn can lead to industrial ...
Georgios Baltzopoulos +6 more
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OBJECTIVE: Household willingness to pay for treatment provides important information for programme planning. We tested for relationships between socioeconomic status, risk of trachoma, perceptions of the effects of azithromycin, and the household ...
Frick Kevin D. +4 more
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An Almost Integration-free Approach to Ordered Response Models [PDF]
In this paper we propose an alternative approach to the estimation of ordered response models. We show that the Probit-method may be replaced by a simple OLS-approach, called P(robit)OLS, without any loss of efficiency.
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell +1 more
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Learning about demand abroad from wholesalers: a B2B analysis. NBB Working Paper No 377, November 2019 [PDF]
This paper uses Business to Business (B2B) transaction level data. It shows that manufacturing firms that initially export via a wholesaler are much more likely to become direct exporters to the same destination in subsequent periods.
Connell, William +2 more
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ABSTRACT Using online job advertisement data improves the timeliness and granularity depth of analysis in the labor market in domains not covered by official data. Specifically, its variation over time may be used as an anticipator of official employment variations.
Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio +1 more
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Term Spread Volatility as a Leading Indicator of Economic Activity
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the macroeconomic predictive power of the volatility of the US Treasury yield curve slope (term spread volatility). Our forecasting exercise shows that US term spread volatility has significant predictive power for US industrial production and employment growth.
Anastasios Megaritis +3 more
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