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The detection and measurement of the level of persistence on aggregate and disaggregate private consumption in Italy …, Norway and United Kingdom is the main focus of the paper. Using a non-parametric methodology applied to annual data it is …
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different countries (Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Holland and Switzerland) we have obtained the following empirical results …
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The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and …
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Agency-based explanations of the great deprivation, contrasted with structure-based explanations, suffer not merely from the criticism of relying on irrational and irresponsible behavior of millions, including that of the most astute financial experts, but are also at a loss to explain why such...
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There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
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Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs) from forests in Norway, Sweden …
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’ buying decisions. Using self-assembled and hitherto unexplored data on government procurement submitted by Japan and … Switzerland to the WTO, we study the determinants of foreign public procurement over the period 1990-2003. In doing so, we make a …
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of data submitted by Japan and Switzerland to the WTO's Committee on Government Procurement. Using several metrics, the … awarded to foreign firms would have been more than 15 times higher in the case of Japan and nearly 68 times more in the case … of Switzerland. We also find that for the same services categories, the Japanese government is not purchasing as much …
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Baldwin and Richardson (1972) and Miyagiwa (1991) laid out the conditions under which a home-bias in public procurement is rendered ineffective as a protectionist device. Since then there has been little empirical work on this subject. In this paper, we bridge this gap by building a new dataset...
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The conduct of the monetary policy could be view as a series of decisions in which the objectives and tools are chosen. This paper explores some aspects of the strategic decisions of the monetary policy such as the roles played by central banks and other public authorities, the main constraints...
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