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• A further augmentation of the Solow model and the empirics of economic growth for OECD countries AI翻译
  作者：Nonneman, W; Vanhoudt, P
• The finance-growth nexus: Evidence from bank branch deregulation AI翻译
  作者：Jayaratne, J; Strahan, PE
  摘要：This paper provides evidence that financial markets can directly affect economic growth by studying the relaxation of bank branch restrictions in the United States. We find that the rates of real, per capita growth in income and output increase significantly following intrastate branch reform. We also argue that the observed changes in growth are the result of changes in the banking system. Improvements in the quality of bank lending, not increased volume of bank lending, appear to be responsi...
• Do doctors practice defensive medicine? AI翻译
  作者：Kessler, D; McClellan, M
  作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research
  摘要：''Defensive medicine'' is a potentially serious social problem: if fear of liability drives health care providers to administer treatments that do not have worthwhile medical benefits, then the current liability system may generate inefficiencies much larger than the costs of compensating malpractice claimants. To obtain direct empirical evidence on this question, we analyze the effects of malpractice liability reforms using data on all elderly Medicare beneficiaries treated fbr serious heart ...
• Integrating behavioral choice into epidemiological models of AIDS AI翻译
  作者：Kremer, M
  摘要：Increased HIV risk creates incentives for people with low sexual activity to reduce their activity, but may make high-activity people fatalistic, leading them to reduce their activity only slightly, or actually increase it. If high-activity people reduce their activity by a smaller proportion than low-activity people, the composition of the pool of available partners will worsen, creating positive feedbacks, and possibly multiple steady states. Early public health efforts may allow societies t...