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Genetic associations between modifiable risk factors and Alzheimer disease
Luo, Jiao; Thomassen, Jesper Qvist; Bellenguez, Céline; Grenier-Boley, Benjamin; de Rojas, Itziar; Castillo, Atahualpa; Parveen, KayenatImportance: An estimated 40% of dementia is potentially preventable by modifying 12 risk factors throughout the life course. However, robust evidence for most of these risk factors is lacking. Effective interventions should target risk factors in the causal pathway to dementia. Objective: To comprehensively disentangle potentially causal aspects of modifiable risk factors for Alzheimer disease (AD) to inspire n...
The time consistency of the Friedman rule
Neumeyer, Pablo Andrés; Alvarez, Fernando; Kehoe, PatrickWe consider the problem of time consistency of the Ramsey monetary and fiscal policies in an economy without capital. Following Lucas and Stokey (1983) we allow the government at date t to leave its successor at t + 1 a profile of real and nominal debt of all maturities, as a way to influence its decisions. We show that the Ramsey policies are time consistent if and only if the Friedman rule is the optimal Rams...