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This paper analyses the determinants of academic performance of first-year undergraduate students in Economics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. We focus on a few core subjects which differ in their degree of mathematical complexity. Type of school, specialization...
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Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of...
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This paper reviews some of the most prominent asset price bubbles from the past 400 years and documents how central banks (or other institutions) reacted to those bubbles. The historical evidence suggests that the emergence of bubbles is often preceded or accompanied by an expansionary monetary...
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changes in real GDP, the stock market, country credit ratings, and the exchange rate. We explore the linkages between these …
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combines 2008 changes in real GDP, the stock market, country credit ratings, and the exchange rate. We explore the linkages …
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EGARCH-M models based on a daily, weekly, and monthly S&P–500 returns over the period October 1934–September 1994 reveal that higher margins have a much stronger negative relation to subsequent volatility in bull markets than in bear markets. Higher margins are also negatively related to...
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subset was offered a simplified procedure to purchase a household connection on credit (at a zero percent interest rate … treatment group, despite the financial cost of the connection. Our results suggest that facilitating access to credit for …
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importance of money versus credit contraction in the propagation of this policy error to the wider economy and ultimately price …
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This … paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of …
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This paper compares the behavior of Euro-Area (EA) banks’ credit and reserves with those of US banks following … substantially higher than previously believed, in the EA). The paper shows that, although the behavior of banks’ credit following … differences in the relative importance of banking credit within the total amount of credit intermediated through banks and bond …
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