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Long-acting reversible contraception free of charge, method initiation, and abortion rates in Finland
(07.03.2018)
American Journal of Public Health 4 ; April 2018
American Journal of Public Health 4 ; April 2018
Objectives. To evaluate whether a public program providing long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods free of charge increases the LARC initiation rate and reduces the unintended pregnancy rate in the general ...
The pass-through to consumer prices in CIS economies : The role of exchange rates, commodities and other common factors
(18.04.2018)
Research in International Business and Finance April
Research in International Business and Finance April
This empirical study considers the pass-through of key nominal exchange rates and commodity prices to consumer prices in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), taking into account the effect of idiosyncratic and ...
Trusting banks in China
(26.04.2018)
Pacific Economic Review 2 ; May ; 2018
Pacific Economic Review 2 ; May ; 2018
Trust in banks is essential to financial system effectiveness. The present study examines the determinants of trust in banks in China. Using the most recent wave of the World Values Survey, which included information on ...
Household Optimism and Overborrowing
(22.01.2018)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 1; February 2018
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 1; February 2018
We use Finnish household-level data from 1994 to 2013 to measure how often and what kind of forecast errors households make and how the errors are linked to the households' borrowing behavior and overindebtedness. We find ...
Migration Effects on Municipalities’ Expenditures
(01.02.2018)
Review of Economics 1
Review of Economics 1
In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities’ expenditures depend on the demographic structure of the population. More precisely, we scrutinize the role of foreign citizens: how does the share of citizens with foreign ...
Cyclicality of bank liquidity creation
(15.07.2018)
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money July ; 2018
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money July ; 2018
This paper investigates the cyclicality of bank liquidity creation. Since liquidity creation is a major economic function of banks, their liquidity creation behavior may amplify business cycle fluctuations. Using the ...
Forecasting stock market returns by summing the frequency-decomposed parts
(15.01.2018)
Journal of Empirical Finance January 2018
Journal of Empirical Finance January 2018
We generalize the Ferreira and Santa-Clara (2011) sum-of-the-parts method for forecasting stock market returns. Rather than summing the parts of stock returns, we suggest summing some of the frequency-decomposed parts. The ...
Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Financial Performance : The Mediating Role of Productivity
(15.05.2018)
Journal of Business Ethics 3
Journal of Business Ethics 3
This study treats firm productivity as an accumulation of productive intangibles and posits that stakeholder engagement associated with better corporate social performance helps develop such intangibles. We hypothesize ...
Meta-analysis of Chinese business cycle correlation
(03.08.2018)
Pacific Economic Review 3
Pacific Economic Review 3
We review previous research on China's business cycle correlation with other economies applying meta‐analysis. We survey 71 papers analysing the different periods of Chinese economic development since the 1950s that were ...
Predicting Banking Crises with Artificial Neural Networks: The Role of Nonlinearity and Heterogeneity
(28.12.2017)
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1; January 2018
Scandinavian Journal of Economics 1; January 2018
Studies of the early warning systems (EWSs) for banking crises usually rely on linear classifiers, estimated with international datasets. I construct an EWS based on an artificial neural network (ANN) model, and I also ...