We investigate whether the financial system dampens or exacerbates monetary shocks of inflation uncertainty to the economy. Our GMM-estimates for 88 countries over a period of 25 years show that inflation uncertainty has a positive and significant impact on the volatility of economic growth. More importantly, we find that financial development dampens the negative effects of inflation uncertain...

background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical inactivity and academic record in korean adolescents. methods: adolescent students from the first grade of middle school to the third grade of high school (n=75,066) participated in the 5th korea youth risk behavior web-based survey project in 2009. the association between physical inactivity and academic ...

This paper reviews evidence regarding the distrib~tional impa~t of inflation on p~rchasing power, iucome, and weglth, and analyzes the impact of anti-inflation poLicy and its interaction with distribution policy. The evidence suggests that recent inflation has worsened relative economic position of low-in~ome families. A contractionary fis~glmonetary policy, wh~ch seems likely to be'the keyston...

Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France (M Cecchini MD, F Sassi PhD); Health Systems Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (J A Lauer PhD, D Chisholm PhD); Centre for Burden of Disease and Cost-eff ectiveness, University of Queensland School of Population Health, Brisbane, QLD, Australia (Y Y Lee BHSci); and Economic Anal...

making capital and investment is the main driving forces of economic development. based on the investment sensitivity to the changes of some of macro-economic variables and risk and uncertainty, the present study evaluated the effective factors on investment in private sector in iran during 1980-2007. at first, the uncertainty variables of real informal exchange rate, nominal interest rate and ...

OBJECTIVE Tobacco smoking, excess weight and physical inactivity contribute substantially to the preventable disease burden in Canada. The purpose of this paper is to apply a recently developed approach in addressing the issue of double counting in estimating the combined current economic burden of these risk factors (RFs) and to estimate the economic benefits of long-term RF reduction in Canad...