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Self-employment, knowledge and economic growth : an empirical study for Latin American countries

González Sánchez, Víctor M. - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 473-484

example, unemployment, taxes and education (as a proxy of knowledge). …

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Socio-economic conditions and mortality in Italy

Cannari, Luigi; D'Alessio, Giovanni - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 32 (2016) 2, pp. 331-349

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Maternal Smoking, Misclassification, and Infant Health

Brachet, Tanguy - 2013

between infant health and maternal smoking. When state cigarette excise taxes are used as an instrument for tobacco use …

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Home equity in retirement

Nakajima, Makoto; Telyukova, Irina A. - 2019

decisions. We investigate empirically and theoretically the life-cycle patterns of homeownership, housing and nonhousing assets … in retirement. Using an estimated structural model of saving and housing decisions, we find, first, that homeowners … 1996-2006 housing boom significantly increased homeowners' assets. These channels are quantitatively significant; without …

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Determinants of External-Debt Crises. A Probit Model

Magomedova, Medeya - 2017

The issue of EDC became increasingly important in the field of development economics primarily because EDC has been occurring more frequent after the deregulation of global financial flows in the 1970s (Tiruneh 2004, Jones 2015) hitting mostly MICs and LICs. Assessing the probability of an EDC...

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Comprehensive Time-Series Regression Models Using Gretl — U.S. GDP and Government Consumption Expenditures & Gross Investment from 1980 to 2013

Shi, Juehui - 2019

short-term, significantly abrupt increase in GCEGI might not be good to the long-term health of GDP. Instead, a balanced …

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Estimation of the Investment Function in Sudan (1979-2008)

Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2012

Most developing and underdeveloped countries beside Sudan suffer from low levels of income in addition to the low savings that are result from the lack of sophisticated savings channels. Hence, investments depend on the individuals' abilities on savings where they are major motivating vehicle...

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Dynamic Relationship between Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Exports in the US : An Approach with Structural Breaks

Stylianou, Tasos - 2014

One of the well-studied subjects in the development economics literature is the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth. Recently, we have a renewed interest in growth determinants and the considerable research on externality-led growth, with the advent of...

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Quantifying Trading Behavior in Financial Markets Using Google Trends

Preis, Tobias - 2014

Crises in financial markets affect humans worldwide. Detailed market data on trading decisions reflect some of the complex human behavior that has led to these crises. We suggest that massive new data sources resulting from human interaction with the Internet may offer a new perspective on the...

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Traffic Accidents : An Econometric Investigation

Loureiro, Paulo R. A. - 2012

Based on a sample of drivers in Brasilia's streets, this article investigates whether distraction explains traffic accidents. A probit model is estimated to determine the predictive power of several variables on traffic accidents. The main conclusion drawn from this study is that the proxies...

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