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Resumen del documento: Una gran parte de la literatura ha documentado los efectos negativos del conflicto civil en los resultados educativos de los niños afectados a través de diferentes países y periodos históricos. Sin embargo, el efecto opuesto no es obvio.
The document "AIR POLLUTION IN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA: A Concentration-Response Approach" was presented on 27 April 2005.
Profesora de economía, Universidad de los Andes
Principal Economist, Board of Governors Federal Reserve System   Co-autores:  Michiel De Pooter, Giovanni Favara,  Jason Wu (Board of Governors Federal Reserve System)  
Felipe Alves: Economista Senior, Banco de Canadá
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Abstract: We measure the inflation-unemployment tradeoff associated with monetary easing and tightening, during booms and recessions, using a novel nonlinear Proxy-SVAR approach. We find evidence of significant nonlinearities for the U.S. economy (1973:M1 - 2019:M6): stimulating economic activity…
Abstract: In this paper, we develop a scalable micro-macro modeling framework that integrates linear multivariate time series models with nonlinear panel models to investigate to what extent oil supply shocks affect household inflation expectations in the Euro area in a heterogeneous and nonlinear…
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