in macroeconomic studies, social welfare is assumed as a function of inflation and unemployment. although the social welfare function which is dependent to unemployment and inflation variables has been used widely in macroeconomic theories, but this relation needs to be tested through empirical observations. this paper, using variables such as to economics of happiness area and subjective wellb...

OBJECTIVE We test whether macroeconomic conditions affect individuals' willingness to pay for environmental quality improvements. BACKGROUND Improvements in environmental quality, like everything, come at a cost. Individuals facing difficult economic times may be less willing to make trade-offs required for improvements in environmental quality. Using somewhat different methodologies and shor...

This paper studies the impact of macroeconomic volatility/uncertainty on the accumulation of net foreign assets of a country. We first show that, in OECD economies over the period 1970-2012, increases in country specific macroeconomic volatility are, after controlling for wide array of factors, significantly associated with accumulation of net foreign assets. An increase in volatility (measured...

Decades of underinvestment in public sectors and in teachers and health workers have adversely affected the health and educational outcomes of women. This is partly explained by a general lack of resources. However, the amount a country can spend on social sectors, including teachers and health workers, is also determined by its macroeconomic framework, which is set in agreement with the Intern...

Macroeconomic crises not only affect the current living standards of the poor, but their ability to grow out of poverty. This paper presents evidence on the impact of economic crisis on poverty and inequality in Latin America. Crises not only result in higher poverty rates but also may cause irreversible damage to the human capital of the poor. In light of this evidence, the author concludes th...

Numerous academic studies examine equity risk premium predictability based on various macroeconomic variables and price and volume based variables from stock market. In this article, we extend the frontier of the set of predictors from macroeconomic variables and stock market variables to foreign exchange market variables due to various reasons. Firstly, foreign exchange market reflects various...

The majority of OECD countries has experienced a reduction in macroeconomic volatility during the last two decades. This period is also characterized by a gradual liberalization of the capital accounts of from these countries. The goal of this paper is to study whether capital markets liberalization can lead to lower macroeconomic volatility. We study a business cycle model with multiple countr...

Morocco’s macroeconomic situation in the early 1980s was quite difficult for a variety of reasons including a high external debt and budget deficit. As a result of a Structural Adjustment Plan (SAP), the macroeconomic situation greatly improved. Moreover, social indicators also noticeably improved. For instance, by 2004, the net primary school enrollment rate was 87% while the life expectancy a...

In this paper we hypothesize that greater macroeconomic uncertainty would cause firms to increasingly turn to their suppliers as a source of finance, making greater use of trade credit. We test this hypothesis using a panel of non–financial firms drawn from the annual COMPUSTAT database and show that an increase in macroeconomic uncertainty leads to a narrowing of the cross–sectional distributi...

This paper analyzes the impacts of news shocks on macroeconomic volatility. Whereas anticipation amplifies volatility in any purely forward-looking model, such as the baseline New Keynesian model, the results are ambiguous when including a backward-looking component. In addition to these theoretical findings, we use the estimated model of Smets and Wouters (2003) to provide numerical evidence t...