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Escape routes from sovereign default risk in the euro area
Semmler, Willi; Proaño Acosta, Christian - 2015
dynamics of output, sovereign debt and financial stress in some euro area and other industrialized countries. …
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China : Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
Li, Hongbin - 2010
likely confounded by other omitted policy shocks or socioeconomic changes. Moreover, we conduct the DD estimation using both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138734
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Surprises in scheduled releases : why do they move the bond market?
Hess, Dieter - 2000
It is well known that information arrival has an impact on prices volatility, and trading volume in financial markets (see e.g., Goodhart and O'Hara 1997). Scheduled macroeconomic announcements, such as monthly employment figures, consumer prices, or building permits, stand out from the steady...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445168
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Further evidence on the (in-) efficiency of the U.S. housing market
Schindler, Felix - 2010
Extending the controversial findings from relevant literature on testing the efficient market hypothesis for the U.S. housing market, the results from the monthly and quarterly transaction-based Case-Shiller indices from 1987 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919079
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Did the introduction of the euro lead to money illusion? : empirical evidence from Germany
Bittschi, Benjamin; Duppel, Saskia - 2015
Using the introduction of the euro as a natural experiment, we provide economy-wide evidence for money illusion based … effect between 2.4% and 7.6%. Compared to previous studies on money illusion in the course of the euro currency changeover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316505
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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? : empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443287
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Exchange rate or wage changes in internationale adjustment? : Japan and China versus the United States
McKinnon, Ronald I. (contributor) - 2005
Under the world dollar standard, a discrete appreciation by a dollar creditor country of the United States, such as China or Japan, has no predictable effect on its trade surplus. Currency appreciation by the creditor country will slow its economic growth and eventually cause deflation but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003114252
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Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
de Luna, Xavier - 2012
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...
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How Successful are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2016
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988130
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How many factors and shocks cause financial stress?
Kappler, Marcus; Schleer, Frauke - 2013
particular financial stress in the euro area. A second aim is to construct summary indices on the conditions and level of stress … financial market conditions in the euro area, our results suggest that the data respond quite differently to fundamental shocks … financial sector in the euro area react fairly heterogonously to such shocks. We estimate several common factors and by means of …
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