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Do Older Adults Know Their Spouses’ End-of-Life Treatment Preferences? by Moorman, Sara M.; Hauser, Robert M.; Carr, Deborah
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When terminally ill patients become mentally incapacitated, their surrogates often make treatment decisions in collaboration with health care providers. The authors examined how surrogates’ errors in ...

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Updated: Jul 9, 2009
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The authors review the empirical literature that studies the relationship between foreign direct investment, productivity, and growth using aggregate data, and focus on two questions: (1) is there evidence ...

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Updated: Mar 25, 2009
Mortgage Innovation, Mortgage Choice, and Housing Decisions by Chambers, Matthew S.; Garriga, Carlos; Schlagenhauf, Don
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This paper examines some of the more recent mortgage products now available to borrowers. The authors describe how these products differ across important characteristics, such as the down payment requirement, repayment ...

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Updated: Mar 25, 2009
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This paper examines a tractable real business cycle model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks and binding credit constraints on entrepreneurs. The model shows how firm volatility increases in combination ...

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Updated: Mar 25, 2009
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The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 took a turn for the worse in September 2008. Until then, Federal Reserve actions taken to improve the functioning financial markets did not affect ...

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Updated: Mar 25, 2009
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The alcohol industry has been advancing an agenda of corporate social responsibility, claiming that there is no conflict between commercial interests and public health goals. This study subjects this ...

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Updated: Feb 21, 2009
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The current financial turmoil has generated considerable discussion of liquidity. Moreover, it has been widely reported that the Federal Reserve played a major role in supplying liquidity to financial ...

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Updated: Jan 28, 2009
Three Funerals and a Wedding by Bullard, James B.
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This article is a modified and updated version of a speech presented at the Regional Economic Summit, Evansville, Indiana, November 20, 2008.

hdl:1902.2/24543
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Updated: Jan 28, 2009
Real Interest Rate Persistence: Evidence and Implications by Neely, Christopher J.; Rapach, David E.
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The real interest rate plays a central role in many important financial and macroeconomic models, including the consumption-based asset pricing model, neoclassical growth model, and models of the monetary ...

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Updated: Jan 28, 2009
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Many U.S. states imposed temporary moratoria on farm and nonfarm residential mortgage foreclosures during the Great Depression. This article describes the conditions that led some states to impose these ...

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Updated: Jan 13, 2009