How important is the effect of exchange rate fluctuations on the competitive environment faced by domestic firms and the prices they charge? To answer this question, this paper examines the 17% appreciation of the yuan against the US dollar from 2005 to 2008. In a monthly panel covering 110 sectors, a 1% appreciation of the Yuan increases US import prices by roughly 0.8%. It is then shown that ...

This paper estimates a pooled (fixed-effects) FDI investment function that seeks to identify some of the major economic and institutional determinants of FDI flows to nine major Latin American countries during the 1980-2001 period. First, it develops a conceptual framework of analysis that seeks to identify some of the major economic and institutional determinants of FDI. Second, the paper give...

Fairness considerations within the …rm are introduced into the determination of wages in a two factor Pissarides-style model of search unemployment to study its implications for the unemployment rates of unskilled and skilled workers in both the closed economy case and when the economy can o¤shore some inputs. While the e¤ect of a fair-wage constraint on unskilled workers takes the form of an i...

Low-grade inflammation is a risk factor for depression, psychosis and other major psychiatric disorders. It is associated with poor response to antidepressant and antipsychotics, and could potentially be a treatment target. However, there is limited data on the prevalence of low-grade inflammation in major psychiatric disorders, and on the characteristics of patients who show evidence of inflam...

In recent years a few advanced countries have been advocating multilateral rules permitting punitive trade measures to be taken against countries not upholding core labour standards. The mainly developing target countries have rebutted these initiatives which they argue are protectionist, in intent and in effect. Whilst closely examining the economic arguments in this controversy, this paper is...

BACKGROUND Unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) have high levels of psychiatric symptoms, and concerns for their access to mental health services have been raised. From the mid-2000s, an increasing number of asylum-seeking URMs, mainly adolescent boys from Afghanistan, have been referred to the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry emergency unit in Malmö, Sweden. The aim of the study was to compare inp...

The UK government has recently recognised the need to improve mental health services in the country. Electronic health records provide a rich source of patient data which could help policymakers to better understand needs of the service users. The main objective of this study is to unveil statistics of diagnoses recorded in the Case Register of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...

Abstract Background Mental health disorders and cardiovascular diseases are closely associated. The impact of mental on disease risk could be related to associated smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol. Despite shared factors, there remains a paucity information incident atrial fibrillation (AF) incidence in patients with disorders. Purpose To assess the association between AF, especially a...

Introduction The threat and preservation of the territorial integrity Ukraine are not new issues. During last decade, peacetime (Peace, until 2013) was disrupted by active hostility (AH, 2014–2015) trench warfare (TW, 2016–2021). War exert acute chronic impacts on mental health, may be a substrate for health disorders, especially worrisome since, today, large-scale conflict has demanded recruit...