Institution
Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Facility•Kiel, Germany•
About: Kiel Institute for the World Economy is a facility organization based out in Kiel, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Foreign direct investment & Productivity. The organization has 318 authors who have published 1909 publications receiving 42832 citations. The organization is also known as: Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel.
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TL;DR: The authors examined the consequences of a sudden increase in household debt burdens by exploiting variation in exposure to household foreign currency debt during Hungary's late-2008 currency crisis and found that revaluation of debt burdens causes higher default rates and a collapse in spending.
Abstract: We examine the consequences of a sudden increase in household debt burdens by exploiting variation in exposure to household foreign currency debt during Hungary's late-2008 currency crisis. The revaluation of debt burdens causes higher default rates and a collapse in spending. These responses lead to a worse local recession, driven by a decline in local demand, and negative spillover effects on nearby borrowers without foreign currency debt. The estimates translate into an output multiplier on higher debt service of 1.67. The impact of debt revaluation is particularly severe when foreign currency debt is concentrated on household, rather than firm, balance sheets.
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TL;DR: The authors found that individuals who receive a descriptive norm donate significantly more when they have to guess the descriptive norm beforehand, and argued that guessing draws attention to the norm and therefore increases its effectiveness.
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TL;DR: Application of fluoride varnish in the clinic setting is unlikely to be cost-effective in low-risk populations, and there is the need to either target high-risk groups or to provide fluoridevarnish at lower costs, possibly in nonclinic settings.
Abstract: Objectives
The total body of evidence finds fluoride varnish effective to prevent caries. However, most trials were conducted in high-risk populations, with more recent trials on low-risk groups finding a lower efficacy. We aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of fluoride varnish application in clinic setting in populations with different caries risk.
Methods
A mixed public-private-payer perspective in the context of German health care was performed using a lifetime Markov model. Effectiveness data were derived from an update of the most recent systematic Cochrane review and synthesized in three different risk groups according to control group caries increment via random-effects meta-analysis. Varnish was assumed to be applied twice yearly between age 6 and 18 years. Teeth with carious defects would be treated restoratively and could experience further follow-up treatments. Costs were deduced from German fee item catalogues. Monte Carlo microsimulations were used for to analyse lifetime treatment costs and caries increment (Euro/Decayed, Missing, Filled Teeth (DMFT)).
Results
In low-risk groups, fluoride varnish was nearly twice as costly and minimally more effective (293 Euro, 8.1 DMFT) than no varnish (163 Euro, 8.5 DMFT). The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was 343 Euro spent per avoided DMFT. The ICER was lower in medium-risk (ICER 93 Euro/DMFT) and high-risk groups (8 Euro/DMFT).
Conclusions
Application of fluoride varnish in the clinic setting is unlikely to be cost-effective in low-risk populations. There is the need to either target high-risk groups or to provide fluoride varnish at lower costs, possibly in nonclinic settings.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level and found that employment growth in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis.
Abstract: This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile as a natural experiment. In our empirical analysis we find that employment growth in manufacturing plants has been drastically reduced during the economic crisis. More importantly, we do not find evidence that multinationals react to the economic crisis differently than do domestic firms. Our findings hold in a number of robustness tests, in which we also investigate the role of access to finance. The results are in contrast to the idea that multinationals are less affected by an economic crisis and that they may be able to act as stabilizers in developing countries.
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TL;DR: This article investigated the performance of common approaches in international benefit transfer using data from identical and simultaneous contingent valuation studies on marine water quality in nine European countries and found that using additional explanatory variables or using other functional forms worsens the quality of transfers.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Richard S.J. Tol | 116 | 695 | 48587 |
Axel Dreher | 78 | 350 | 20081 |
Holger Görg | 67 | 367 | 17161 |
J. Edward Taylor | 50 | 210 | 13967 |
Thomas Lux | 49 | 194 | 11041 |
Dennis J. Snower | 47 | 311 | 9689 |
Xinshen Diao | 46 | 251 | 6568 |
Gabriel Felbermayr | 45 | 272 | 6586 |
Peter Nunnenkamp | 42 | 250 | 5711 |
Ansgar Belke | 42 | 536 | 7383 |
Awudu Abdulai | 41 | 156 | 6555 |
Katrin Rehdanz | 40 | 161 | 6453 |
Martin F. Quaas | 39 | 189 | 5628 |
Michael Hübler | 36 | 194 | 4051 |
Mario Larch | 34 | 146 | 4040 |