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Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective
Bordo, Michael D. - 2014
This paper examines the historical evolution of central bank credibility using both historical narrative and empirics for a group of 16 countries, both advanced and emerging. It shows how the evolution of credibility has gone through a pendulum where credibility was high under the classical gold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043621
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218517
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls
Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233466
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Central Bank Credibility : An Historical and Quantitative Exploration
Bordo, Michael D. - 2015
In this paper we provide empirical measures of central bank credibility and augment these with historical narratives from eleven countries. To the extent we are able to apply reliable institutional information we can also indirectly assess their role in influencing the credibility of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030622
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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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"Beauty is the Promise of Happiness"?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow placing lower bounds on the effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121060
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Structural and Cyclical Forces in the Labor Market During the Great Recession : Cross-Country Evidence
Sala, Luca - 2012
price and wage rigidities to study four countries (the U.S., the U.K., Sweden, and Germany) during the financial crisis and … factors were also important in the U.K., but less so in Sweden and Germany. Reduced matching efficiency was considerably less … important in the U.K. and Sweden than in the U.S., but matching efficiency improved in Germany, helping to keep unemployment low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099824
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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2008
We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772369
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Regime Switches in Interest Rates
Bekaert, Geert - 2008
econometric performance of regime-switching models for interest rate data from the US, Germany and the UK. There is strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774902
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Global Yield Curve Dynamics and Interactions : A Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Approach
Diebold, Francis X. - 2010
-specific factors. In an empirical analysis of term structures of government bond yields for the Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759705