pension policy. This paper presents the conceptual differences between static period and dynamic cohort mortality tables …

This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …

How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending … the value of the lending relationship and lowers the lending rate. Bond investors demand compensation for the increased …

that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. This hypothesis has spurned a large …

differences. Arguably, this shortcoming is rooted in the lack of an appropriate MIMIC model which considers cointegration among … variables. This paper develops a MIMIC model which estimates the cointegration equilibrium relationship and the error correction …

green bond returns and volatilities. On the whole, the evidence suggests weaker linkages, and thus a lower degree of …

Results from cultural evolutionary theory often suggest that social learning can lead cultural groups to differ … meet this challenge, we exploit a cultural border dividing Switzerland in ways that are independent of institutional … preferences related to fertility and mortality, the two basic components of genetic fitness. We specifically select six referenda …

. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects mortality. We do so by leveraging a …-supported hospital reduced infant mortality by 10%, saving one life for every $20,000 (2017 dollars) spent. Effects were larger for Black … infants (16%) than for White infants (7%), implying a reduction in the Black-White infant mortality gap by one-third. We show …