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Every holiday has its own particular after-effects. For Halloween, there's a little sugar headache. On Thanksgiving, turkey coma. For Christmas, it's a mix of credit card debt and stale cookie mouth. And on New Year's Day, more likely than not, you're going to have a hangover.
Given the average mental acuity of a hungover individual, you shouldn't be too harsh on the languages with boring words for the affliction--it's hard enough to talk at all when you're groaning and slowly sipping Gatorade, let alone to come up with something witty. But happily, parts of the world have bothered to be a little more interesting.
In Germany's sphere of influence, hangovers are intimately connected with wailing cats (duh!). The typical German word is just Kater ("tomcat"), but it's more fun to say Katzenjammer, which translates to something like "caterwauling" (and, if you're a comics nerd, was the name of a mischievous pair of early-20th-century Dennis the Menace types). From the German comes the Czech kocovina, the Polish kac and kociokwik, and the Dutch kater. Unfortunately, though, the Germans don't go in for the hair of the cat--countering a hangover with a wee nip more is known as ein Konterbier trinken, which just means "having a counter-beer."
Outside of those international hangover families, though, many odd outliers lie. The French, ever poetic, sigh through a gueule de bois, literally a "wooden gob," after a night of too much eau de vie. They used to wake up with a mal aux cheveux, which translates to the painfully apt "hair-ache," but that's fallen out of currency.
Spanish, being spread out all over the place, has its own glossary of hangover words, and they all take the ordeal in interesting directions. The Spanish resaca literally means "undertow" or "backwash," the Mexicans feel cruda (lit. "raw") on those too-bright mornings, and Central Americans wake up made of goma, or rubber. Those all seem fairly relatable, but your guess is as good as mine as to why Colombian hangovers are called guayabo, "guava trees." Is it that your insides feel like the pulpy-sweet fruit? Or, more practically, is it because crushed-up guava leaves are a folk hangover cure? Colombian readers, if you exist, please do come at us.
The Vietnamese have two prevailing terms for the hangover: dựng xin, which means something like "built cockeyed" and accurately captures the perspective-altering effects of a long night out, and the more stoic ton tại, which just means "exist" or "endure." Grim, but accurate.
Finishing off our world tour of misery, the Finns have a whole host of words for hangovers (and leave the hammers at home, since the language is more like Hungarian than Swedish, despite its homeland). But the best by far is "krapula," which comes straight from Ancient Greek kraipale via the Latin crapula. And best of all, this is an English word, too! Before "hangover" started being a word in the early 1900s, the go-to term for that post-party feeling was "crapulous," which is, I think we can all agree, a much, much better word.
The effects of hangovers have been hanging around for ages. The word itself, however, has only been fermenting since the late 19th century. Originally, hangover described someone or something that remained or simply survived, but it was later distilled into common use as a word for the effects of overconsumption of alcohol or drugs. These days, hangover can also suggest an emotional letdown or an undesirable prolongation of notes or sounds from a loudspeaker.
Research on the economic fallout of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has sofar naturally focused on the short-term impacts from mitigation andcontainment strategies. However, as governments engage in large-scalecounter-pandemic fiscal programs, it is important to understand what theeconomic landscape will look like in the years and decades to come. Thatlandscape will shape monetary and fiscal policy in ways that are not yetfully understood.
Historical studies have typically focused on one event, in one country orregion, and have traced local outcomes a decade at most. But in large-scalepandemics, effects will be felt across whole economies, or across widerregions, for two reasons: either because the infection itself is widespreador because trade and market integration eventually propagate the economicshock across the map.
In a new paper, Jord, Singh, and Taylor (2020), we take a global view ofthe macroeconomic consequences of pandemics across a number of Europeaneconomies. We focus on the aftermath of 15 large pandemic events with atleast 100,000 deaths, which are listed in the table.
Economists speak of the natural, or neutral, rate of interest as theequilibrium level that would keep the economy growing at its potential ratewith stable inflation. In the long run, the relative demand and supply ofloanable funds by savers and borrowers determine the natural rate.
As shown in Chart 1, pandemics have long-lasting effects on interest rates.Following a pandemic, the response of the natural rate of interest istilted down by nearly 1.5 percentage points about 20 years later. Forperspective, that decline is comparable to what we have experienced fromthe mid-1980s to today. We also find that it takes an additional 20 yearsfor the natural rate to return to its original level.
If this explanation is correct, we should see a very different patternfollowing a quite different type of historical event that also leads tomassive loss of life: war. Unlike pandemics, major armed conflicts alsoresult in destruction of crops, land, structures, and machinery: in otherwords, the loss of capital.
To explore further, we extended our initial estimates to include major warsthat resulted in large loss of life (and large loss of land, structures,and other traditional forms of capital). The results could not be clearer.In wars, the relative loss of capital to labor tilts the interest rateresponse up, not down, as Chart 1 also shows. Wars tend to leave realinterest rates elevated for 30 to 40 years, and in an economically (andstatistically) significant way.
If the neoclassical mechanism is correct, there is another dimension wherethe effects of pandemics should be visible. As the labor-to-capital ratiodeclines, the natural rate should decline but real wages should increase.Chart 2 shows the response of the real wage to pandemics; it risesgradually so that, 40 years out, the real wage is about 10 percent higher.This pattern is thus consistent with the logic of the neoclassical growthmodel.
If the historical trends we have highlighted play out similarly in the wakeof COVID-19, then secular stagnation (Summers 2014) would be a concern formonetary and fiscal stabilization policy for the next two decades or more.
First, the death toll of COVID-19 relative to the total population could besmaller than that of some of the major pandemics of the past, if modernmedical care and public health measures are more effective.
On net, we still expect a sustained period of low real interest rates(though attenuated by the factors we discussed). Low real rates should thenprovide welcome fiscal space for governments to aggressively mitigate theconsequences of the pandemic.
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Alcohol hangover effects cause serious economic consequences. Hangover-related absenteeism and poor job performance costs the US economy about $148 billion a year (Stockwell, 1998). Workers with an alcohol hangover reported significantly more conflicts with supervisors and co-workers, and felt miserable or fell asleep on the job (Ames et al, 1997). Also, physical performance of healthy volunteers (Karvinen et al, 1962) and athletes (O'Brien and Lyons, 2000) is significantly reduced during hangover. Binge drinking is especially prevalent among college students. Since three out of five college students are regularly involved in binge drinking, it is the most serious public health problem of American colleges (Wechsler et al, 1998,2000).
Memory and psychomotor impairment during alcohol intoxication has been consistently reported (Krger, 1992; Ferrara et al, 1994; Holloway, 1995; Koelega, 1995; Moskowitz and Fiorentino, 2000). Studies performed with alcoholics showed that frequent binge drinking also produces serious memory deficits in the long run (eg Tapert et al, 2001). Moreover, a recent study performed in rats showed that even after a 4-day period of continuous binge drinking, significant corticolimbic neural cell loss was observed (Obernier et al, 2002). During hangover, these rats performed significantly worse on spatial and reversal memory tests, when compared to predrinking assessments.
Methodological shortcomings possibly account for these contradictory results. Some of these studies measured alcohol hangover effects while BAC had not yet reached zero (Takala, 1958; Dowd et al, 1973), did not report the peak BAC after drinking (Carroll et al, 1964; Finnigan et al, 1998; Anderson and Dawson, 1999), or BAC at testing times (Carroll et al, 1964; Anderson and Dawson, 1999). Interpretation of results from studies with unknown BAC levels at testing time or in the case that BAC was not zero is difficult, since it remains unclear as to whether impairment is caused by hangover effects or the ongoing alcohol intoxication. Further, peak BAC after drinking gives an impression of the severity of hangover, and the sensitivity of the subjects to the effects of alcohol. Another problem includes the absence of controlled intake (Carroll et al, 1964; Finnigan et al, 1998), since in such instances one cannot be sure that the beverage was actually consumed.
Other studies did not perform blinded treatment administration (Laurell and Trnros, 1983; Trnros and Laurell, 1991; Chait and Perry, 1994). As a result, participants were aware of the alcoholic content of the beverages they consumed. It is likely that this knowledge has affected their test performance, since it is acceptable to assume that expectations and motivational aspects change human behavior when subjects are informed about treatments or dosages.
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