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Tear down this wall : on the persistence of borders in trade
Nitsch, Volker; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009
Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898827
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National representation in multinational institutions : the case of the European Central Bank
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2011
often aim for broad national representation. Reviewing evidence from the European Central Bank, we show that nationality is … business areas best describe the central bank's interest-rate setting behavior. -- organization ; central bank ; nationality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009301395
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What do central bankers do? : evidence from the European Central Bank's Executive Board
Badinger, Harald; Nitsch, Volker - 2019
This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working … time. Using detailed information from personal diaries of the six members of the European Central Bank's Executive Board …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962284