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European market integration for gas? : volume flexibility and political risk
Asche, Frank; Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
, Dutch and Russian gas export prices to Germany in 1990-1998 are examined. Cointegration tests show that the different border … prices for gas to Germany move proportionally over time, indicating an integrated gas market (the Law of One Price holds). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781639
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Sectoral trends and cycles in Germany
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001
We examine the comovements between the output indexes of three German sectors (manufacturing, mining, and agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398919
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The application of the capability approach to high-income OECD countries : a preliminary survey
Volkert, Jürgen; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The goal of this paper is to provide a preliminary overview of empirical Capability Approach (CA) applications for high-income OECD countries. The survey aims at a basis of mutual exchange on relevant CA issues among researchers analyzing well-being in affluent countries. It focuses on CA...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011367
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Unemployment and occupational mobility at the beginning of employment career in Germany and the UK
Schmelzer, Paul - 2011
UK and Germany. While search and matching models argue that an unemployment phase might be used for an active job search … and rigid labour market in Germany creates a stigma attached to unemployment and therefore might have negative … Erwerbskarriere in Großbritannien und Deutschland hat. Während Such- und Matchingmodelle positive Effekte prognostizieren, sagen die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529889
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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey
Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004
This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399168
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Who profits from working-time accounts? : empirical evidence on the determinants of working-time accounts on the employers' and employees' side
Zapf, Ines - 2015
use of working-time accounts in Germany. Using data from the Establishment Panel we first show that industrial relations … Deutschland zu erhalten. Mit den Daten des Betriebspanels zeigen wir zunächst, dass industrielle Beziehungen, Merkmale des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011311639
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Productivity with general indices of management and technical change
Triebs, Thomas P.; Kumbhakar, Subal - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009658043
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials
Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003
The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506475
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659