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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
9409 Thomas Hintermaier
Winfried Koeniger
Household Debt and Crises of Confidence
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence. The house price feeds back on itself by contributing to a liquidity effect, which ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, 1489-1542.)
E21, E32, D91
9407 Marc Fleurbaey
Vito Peragine
Xavier Ramos
Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603)
D3, D63, D71
9406 Andreas Kuhn
The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining ...
(revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344)
D31, D63, J31
9405 G. Andrew Karolyi
David T. Ng
Eswar Prasad
The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors ...
(published in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, 55 (4), 1369 - 1414)
G11, G15, F21
9404 Ali Fakih
Pascal L. Ghazalian
What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (8), 1181-1206)
J20, K20, K31, O53
9403 Pablo A. Acosta
Noel Muller
Miguel Sarzosa
Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper ...
(published as 'Adults' Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills and Their Labor Market Outcomes in Colombia' in: Revista de Economia del Rosario, 2020, 23 (1), 109-148.)
J24, J31, I24
9402 Tony Castleman
James Foster
Stephen C. Smith
Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the ...
(published in: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, Ch. 3, pp 101-127)
I32, O15, D63
9401 Gus O'Donnell
Andrew J. Oswald
National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015,120, 59 - 70)
I31, I38, Z18
9399 Karen Clay
Joshua Lewis
Edson Severnini
Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209)
N32, N52, I15, I18, Q53, Q56, Q58
9398 Timothy J. Halliday
John Lynham
Aureo de Paula
Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The high correlation of industrial pollutant emissions complicates the estimation of the impact of industrial pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from K?lauea volcano, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620),1782–1816,)
H51, I12, Q51, Q53
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