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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010 - This version: July 16, 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008908502
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Social protection as an automatic stabilizer
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of social protection systems in Europe and the US to provide (income) insurance … income shock and 47% of an idiosyncratic unemployment shock in Europe, compared to 32% and 34% in the US. There is large … heterogeneity within Europe with stabilization being much lower in Eastern and Southern than in Central and Northern Europe. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841933
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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences : evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009426404
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Corporate efficiency in Europe
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Shamshur, Anastasiya - 2015
Europe. We find that (i) larger firms are less efficient than smaller firms, (ii) greater leverage contributes to corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510115
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Price jumps on European stock markets
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Novotný, Jan - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235638
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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences : evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009518409
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : Us vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
stabilizers in Eastern and Southern Europe are much lower than in Central and Northern European countries. We also investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139144
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences : Evidence for Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier - 2011
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118277
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Price Jumps on European Stock Markets
Hanousek, Jan - 2013
We analyze the dynamics of price jumps and the impact of the European debt crisis using the high-frequency data reported by selected stock exchanges on the European continent during the period January 2008 to June 2012. We employ two methods to identify price jumps: Method 1 minimizes the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071459
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Intraday Price Discovery in Emerging European Stock Markets
Hanousek, Jan - 2009
We characterize the price discovery in three emerging EU stock markets — the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland — by employing high-frequency five-minute intraday data on stock market index returns and four classes of EU and U.S. macroeconomic announcements during 2004–2007. We account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157122