Shell Shock

Known as: Shell Shocks, Shocks, Shell, shells shock 
Used in World War I to designate a wide variety of MENTAL DISORDERS presumably due to combat experience. from Americanl Psychiatric Glossary, 7th ed.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Neuroscience. Shell shock revisited: solving the puzzle of blast trauma.
grade during the brutal Balkan war of the 1990s, neurologist Ibolja Cernak encountered a medical enigma. She saw soldier after… (More)
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Risk Matters : The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks
This paper shows how changes in the volatility of the real interest rate at which small open emerging economies borrow have a… (More)
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Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Tracing the Impact of Bank Liquidity Shocks : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Do liquidity shocks matter? While even a basic answer to this question presents identi…cation challenges, going beyond this… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Growth and shocks: evidence from rural Ethiopia
Using micro-level panel data from villages in rural Ethiopia, the paper studies the determinants of consumption growth (1989-97… (More)
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2003
Highly Cited
2003
Country Spreads and Emerging Countries : Who Drives Whom ? ∗
A number of studies have stressed the role of movements in US interest rates and country spreads in driving business cycles in… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Estimating Bilateral Exposures in the German Interbank Market: Is there a Danger of Contagion?
Credit risk associated with interbank lending may lead to domino effects, where the failure of a bank results in the failure of… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
INTRAHOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN CÔTE D ’ IVOIRE : SOCIAL NORMS , SEPARATE ACCOUNTS AND CONSUMPTION CHOICES *
In Côte d'Ivoire, as in much of Africa, husbands and wives farm different crops on separate plots. These different crops are… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
AN EMPIRICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DYNAMIC EFFECTS OF CHANGES IN GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND TAXES ON OUTPUT *
This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on U. S. activity in the postwar period… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Smoothing Consumption by Smoothing Income: Hours-of-Work Responses to Idiosyncratic Agricultural Shocks in Rural India
While research has demonstrated that farm households in developing economies are able to protect consumption from idiosyncratic… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Thermal gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of bioprotection from pollutant shocks in the activated sludge microbial community.
We used a culture-independent approach, namely, thermal gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE) analysis of ribosomal sequences… (More)
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