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Models of currency crises with banking sector and imperfectly competitive labor markets
In: Bank of Finland studies
In: E 21
Democracy and growth: An alternative empirical approach
This paper proposes a "before-and-after" approach to empirical examination of the relationship between democracy and growth. Rather than the commonly used cross-country regression method, this paper compares the economic performances of forty countries before and after they became democracies or semi-democracies sometime within the last forty years.The empirical evidence indicates that an improvement in growth performance typically follows the transformation to democracy.Moreover, growth under democracy appears to be more stable than under authoritarian regimes. Interestingly, wealthy countries often experience declines in growth after a democratic transformation, while very poor nations typically experience accelerations in growth.Growth change appears to be negatively related to the initial savings ratio and positively related to the export ratio to GDP.Partial correlation between growth change and primary school or secondary school enrollments and the ratio of government expenditure to GDP is not identified.
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Models of currency crises with banking sector and imperfectly competitive labor markets
In: Bank of Finland studies
In: E 21
Extension of Strongly Regular Graphs
The Friendship Theorem states that if any two people in a party have exactly one common friend, then there exists a politician who is a friend of everybody. In this paper, we generalize the Friendship Theorem. Let $\lambda$ be any nonnegative integer and $\mu$ be any positive integer. Suppose each pair of friends have exactly $\lambda$ common friends and each pair of strangers have exactly $\mu$ common friends in a party. The corresponding graph is a generalization of strongly regular graphs obtained by relaxing the regularity property on vertex degrees. We prove that either everyone has exactly the same number of friends or there exists a politician who is a friend of everybody. As an immediate consequence, this implies a recent conjecture by Limaye et. al.
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The Intrinsic Value of Gold: An Exchange Rate-Free Price Index
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DOES CHINA'S RURAL COOPERATIVE MEDICAL SYSTEM ACHIEVE ITS GOALS? EVIDENCE FROM THE CHINA HEALTH SURVEILLANCE BASELINE SURVEY IN 2001
In: Contemporary economic policy: a journal of Western Economic Association International, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 93-112
ISSN: 1465-7287
The Chinese government is in the process of providing health insurance to the uninsured rural population by expanding the rural Cooperative Medical System (CMS) to every rural county. Using the China Health Surveillance Baseline Survey in 2001, we conducted a case study on two CMS pilot programs and investigated whether or not enrolling in these CMS pilot programs has led to an increase in health care utilization and a decrease in the likelihood of catastrophic health spending for rural residents. Matched data sets are produced using propensity score and the instrumental variable (IV) method is used. We have found that the CMS pilot programs have had a significant and positive effect on the probability of seeking medical care and the number of visits. However, the CMS programs did not seem to have had a significant impact on households' out‐of‐pocket health expenditure and on reducing catastrophic spending. The findings generated from the matched data are consistent with those obtained from the full set of data and those obtained from the IV method. (JEL I18)
Emerging Asia's Growth and Integration: How Autonomous are Business Cycles?
In: ECB Working Paper No. 715
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One-Pot Access to Indazole Fused-Phenanthridinones Via Rh(Iii)-Catalyzed [4+2] Annulation
In: GRESC-D-23-00043
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Blockchain Technology Application in an E-Commerce Supply Chain: Privacy Protection and Sales Mode Selection
In: IEEE transactions on engineering management: EM ; a publication of the IEEE Engineering Management Society, Band 71, S. 8060-8074
On dynamic linkages of the state natural gas markets in the USA: Evidence from an empirical spatio-temporal network quantile analysis
In: Energy economics, Band 80, S. 234-252
ISSN: 1873-6181
On dynamic linkages of the state natural gas markets in the USA: evidence from an empirical spatio-temporal network quantile analysis
We empirically investigate the dynamic linkages of the state-level natural gas markets in the USA. By introducing a novel spatio-temporal network quantile econometric model, we can estimate the dynamic cross-state dependency or market integration of the state-level natural gas markets and the dependence of the state natural gas markets on the national crude oil market at different quantile levels. We find that significant local dynamic neighbouring market integrations exist in the natural gas markets not only in the eastern and central states as evidenced in the literature but also in some western and southwest states. Our results also show that there are significant linkages of the state-level natural gas markets to the national crude oil market through the lagged price shocks and the long-run price equilibrium with the national gas markets under varying price shock propagations. The results can help local government and energy users to mitigate the negative impacts from the expected or unexpected fluctuations in the oil and the neighbouring natural gas markets, which will enact appropriate state-level price discovery and energy policy and investment decision makings.
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On dynamic linkages of the state natural gas markets in the USA: evidence from an empirical spatio-temporal network quantile analysis
We empirically investigate the dynamic linkages of the state-level natural gas markets in the USA. By introducing a novel spatio-temporal network quantile econometric model, we can estimate the dynamic cross-state dependency or market integration of the state-level natural gas markets and the dependence of the state natural gas markets on the national crude oil market at different quantile levels. We find that significant local dynamic neighbouring market integrations exist in the natural gas markets not only in the eastern and central states as evidenced in the literature but also in some western and southwest states. Our results also show that there are significant linkages of the state-level natural gas markets to the national crude oil market through the lagged price shocks and the long-run price equilibrium with the national gas markets under varying price shock propagations. The results can help local government and energy users to mitigate the negative impacts from the expected or unexpected fluctuations in the oil and the neighbouring natural gas markets, which will enact appropriate state-level price discovery and energy policy and investment decision makings.
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Cognitive cities: second International Conference, IC3 2019, Kyoto, Japan, September 3-6, 2019 : revised selected papers
In: Communications in computer and information science 1227