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dynamics of output, sovereign debt and financial stress in some euro area and other industrialized countries. …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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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This study investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on R&D investment during the past financial crisis. We conduct a treatment effects analysis and show that R&D subsidies increased R&D spending among subsidized small and medium sized firms in Germany during the crisis years. In the first crisis...
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