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Income And Mental Health: Unraveling Community And Individual Level Relationships, Carole Gresenz, Roland Sturm, L. Tang

Roland Sturm

No abstract provided.

Income And Mental Health: Unraveling Community And Individual Level Relationships, Carole Gresenz, Roland Sturm, L. Tang

Carole Roan Gresenz

No abstract provided.

Medical Care Output And Productivity In The Nonprofit Sector, Tomas Philipson, Darius Lakdawalla

Darius N. Lakdawalla

No abstract provided.

Quality Bargaining And Intermediate Goods Protection, Neil Campbell

Neil Campbell

This paper offers an explanation for the proposition that removing protection from a firm can induce an improvement in product quality. In a vertically separated industry the quality of the final good is dependent on the quality of the intermediate goods used in its production. This model is used to consider removal of protection from the upstream firm (the supplier) which gives the downstream firm (the assembler) greater bargaining power since the option of turning to a foreign supplier becomes more attractive.

A Note On The Economics Of Biological Invasions, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Valuing Mangrove Conservation In Southern Thailand, Edward Barbier, Suthawan Sathirathai

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

The Economics Of Tropical Deforestation And Land Use: An Introduction To The Special Issue, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

The Political Economy Of Distress In East Asian Financial Institutions, Paola Bongini, Stijn Claessens, Giovanni Ferri

Paola Bongini

The 1997±1999 East Asian crisis is an interesting case for studying the determinants of distress and closure of ®nancial institutions. Of a sample of 283 ®nancial institutions from Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, 120 experienced distress, and by July 1999, 38 were closed. We ®nd that traditional, CAMEL-type ®nancial data for 1996 help predict distress and closure. ``Connections''Ðwith industrial groups or in¯uential familiesÐincreased the likelihood of distress, however, suggesting that supervisors had granted selective prior forbearance from prudential regulations. Since closure was more, not less, likely with connections, the closure processes themselves appear transparent. We also ®nd evidence …

Controlling For Seam Problems In Duration Model Estimates: With Application To The Current Population Survey And The Computer Aided Telephone Interview/ Computer Aided Personal Interview Overlap Survey, Charles Romeo

Charles Romeo

No abstract provided.

Trade And Sustainable Forestry, Edward Barbier

Edward B Barbier

No abstract provided.

Complex Job Mobility And Long‐Run Outcomes For The ‘Economically At‐Risk’, Stacie Bosley

Stacie Bosley