Has inflation targeting increased predictive power of term structure about future inflation: evidence from an emerging market ?

This paper contributes to the vast literature on the predictive power of term structure about future inflation, by focusing on an emerging market case. The following important result emerged in our paper: Monetary policy change is an important determinant of the relationship between term structure and inflation to the extent that even the existence of the relationship critically depends on the nature of monetary policy regime. In our case, the change in monetary policy is associated with the beginning of the implementation of an inflation targeting (IT) regime. While, before IT regime, the information in term structure does not provide any predictive power for future inflation, this phenomenon seems to be completely reversed after IT. Since the implementation of IT, term structure of interest rates has seemed to gain considerable forecasting power for future inflation.Term Structure of Interest Rate, Structural Break, Inflation, Monetary Policy, Inflation Targeting

What works best in congenital heart disease? Comparing two interventions for treatment of Aortic Coarctation

Aortic coarctation is a congenital heart disease characterised by the narrowing of the aorta, commonly resulting in increased morbidity and decreased life expectancy. Despite a relatively low number of affected patients (3 to 4 cases per 10 000 live births) the follow-up after intervention procedures is expensive, due to required ongoing monitoring of disease progression and relapse, and possible late complications. The potential loss of a large number of life years through early death in young patients and high costs of follow-up have put this disease in the focus of the FP7-funded CARDIOPROOF project, in which LSE Health is leading on evidence synthesis and economic modelling

Government size, unemployment, and inflation nexus in eight large emerging market economies

Using a panel of eight large emerging market economies from 1980 to 2015, this paper seeks to assess the causal linkages between government size, unemployment, and inflation. Overall, our results suggest that the government size is positively associated with both unemployment and inflation. The Granger causality runs from the government size to unemployment and to inflation. From our analysis, two aspects stand out. First, the effects of government size on unemployment and inflation depend essentially on how the government size is measured. As long as government consumption spending is considered as the proxy measure of the government size, the government size is significantly and positively correlated with unemployment, and with inflation. Second, indirect taxes, like government consumption spending, have a positive as well as statistically significant association with unemployment. However, the direct taxes solely exert a strong effect on inflation in the countries considered.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Assessing patient satisfaction with obstetrics and gynaecology clinics/outpatient department in university hospital Konya, Turkey

Background: Patient’s satisfaction is of fundamental importance as a measure of the quality of health care. Aim of the study is to assess satisfaction with services was obtained from patients who were seen in obstetrics and gynaecology clinics, a university hospital in Konya, Turkey.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using questionnaires among patients attending obstetrics and gynaecology clinics a university hospital in Konya. The data were collected prospectively between 2nd May and 8th July 2016. Those who agreed to participate were asked to complete a set of questionnaires immediately or face to face interview was carried out if the patient was illiterate. The study instrument was a questionnaire which comprised of two parts. The first part related to respondent’s socio-demographic background and second part on patient satisfaction questions.Results: Half of the respondents (53.3%) visited obstetrics unit and 46.7% of them visited gynaecology clinics unit. 165 (52.1%) appointments were first attendance and others (47.9) follow-up visits. The average patient satisfaction was 74.5% in this study.Conclusions: Generally, the patients were satisfied with services of gynecology and obstetrics clinics. Majority of the patients were satisfied with clinic facility, staff’s professionalism, healthcare provider’s attitude and quality of medical care