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This paper employs an applied econometric study concerning forecasting spot prices in bulk shipping in both markets of tankers and bulk carriers in a disaggregated level. This research is essential, as spot market is one of the most volatile markets and there is a great uncertainty about the...
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The Least-Squares Monte Carlo model (LSM model) has emerged as the derivative valuation technique with the greatest impact in current practice. As with other options valuation models, the LSM algorithm was initially posited in the field of financial derivatives and its extension to the realm of...
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Using county-level data on COVID-19 mortality and infections, along with county-level information on the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in the United States, we examine how the speed of NPI adoption affected COVID-19 mortality. Our estimates suggest that advancing the date...
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Outcomes in economic evaluations, such as health utilities and costs, are products of multiple variables, often … the precision of both imputation approaches. For health utility and cost, patients more often had a partial (9% vs. 23 …
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Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing on (i) the convergences and divergences on the overall work-related outcomes, (ii) the moderating factors studied to date, and (iii) an identification of areas where more...
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%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …
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This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is … relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured and self-assessed health. We adopt an instrumental variable approach …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …
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We analyze human aging, understood as health deficit accumulation, for a panel of European individuals. For that … purpose, we use four waves of the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE dataset) and construct a health ….5 percent more health deficits from one birthday to the next. In non-linear regression (akin to the Gompertz-Makeham model …
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the contradiction between high-growth and poor social welfare and (ii) to assess the influence of education and health … of the 33 countries in the Hopefuls category are in SSA. Second, the effect of health is decreasingly positive from … benefit countries in SSA to invest more in health relative to education now, but decrease such health expenditure and increase …
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