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Seven Finance & Trade Lessons from COVID-19 for Future Pandemics

Agarwal, Ruchir; Gopinath, Gita - 2022

, supply-chain, and trade barriers that amplified the pandemic’s economic costs and contributed to the emergence of new …

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Is Asia Prepared for an Aging Population?

Heller, Peter S. - 2007

Many Asian countries (such as China, Singapore, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, and the Philippines) will experience a significant aging of their populations during the next several decades. This paper explores how these aging Asian countries are addressing and anticipating the...

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What Should Macroeconomists Know About Health Care Policy?

Heller, Peter S. - 2007

This primer aims to provide IMF macroeconomists with the essential information they need to address issues concerning health sector policy, particularly when they have significant macroeconomic implications. Such issues can also affect equity and growth and are fundamental to any strategy of...

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Patterns and Drivers of Health Spending Efficiency

García-Escribano, Mercedes; Juarros, Pedro; Mogues, Tewodaj - 2022

Demands for ramping up health expenditures are at an all-time high. Countries’ needs for additional health resources include responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, closing gaps in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal in health in most emerging and developing countries, and serving an...

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Waste Not, Want Not : The Efficiency of Health Expenditure in Emerging and Developing Economies

Grigoli, Francesco - 2013

Public health spending is low in emerging and developing economies relative to advanced economies and health outputs and outcomes need to be substantially improved. Simply increasing public expenditure in the health sector, however, may not significantly affect health outcomes if the efficiency...

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Public Spending on Health Care and the Poor

Gupta, Sanjeev; Verhoeven, Marijn J. M.; Tiongson, Erwin R. - 2021

This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor`s health status in over 70 countries. It provides evidence that the poor have significantly worse health status than the rich and that they are more favorably affected by public spending on health care. An important new result is...

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Unveiling the Effects of Foreign Exchange Intervention : A Panel Approach

Adler, Gustavo - 2015

We study the effect of foreign exchange intervention on the exchange rate relying on an instrumental-variables panel approach. We find robust evidence that intervention affects the level of the exchange rate in an economically meaningful way. A purchase of foreign currency of 1 percentage point...

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Global Liquidity, House Prices, and the Macroeconomy : Evidence from Advanced and Emerging Economies

Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio - 2015

In this paper we first compare house price cycles in advanced and emerging economies using anew quarterly house price data set covering the period 1990-2012. We find that house prices in emerging economies grow faster, are more volatile, less persistent and less synchronized across countries...

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A Unified Model of Cohort Mortality for Economic Analysis

Moreau, Flavien; Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2021

We propose a dynamic production function of population health and mortality from birth onwards. Our parsimonious model … provides an excellent fit for the mortality and survival curves for both primate and human populations since 1816. The model … mortality gradients across socio-economic statuses, (ii) non-monotonic dynamic effects of in-utero shocks, (iii) persistent or …

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The Impact of Longevity Improvements on U.S. Corporate Defined Benefit Pension Plans

Kisser, Michael - 2013

This paper provides the first empirical assessment of the impact of life expectancy assumptions on the liabilities of private U.S. defined benefit (DB) pension plans. Using detailed actuarial and financial information provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, we construct a longevity variable...

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