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Global Integration of Central and Eastern European Financial Markets: The Role of Economic Sentiments
Belke, Ansgar; Beckmann, Joscha; Kühl, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
This paper examines the importance of different economic sentiments, e.g. consumer moods, for the Central and Eastern … also lead to an increase of the dependence of the CEECs' domestic market performance from global sentiments, we also … investigate the relationship between global economic sentiments and domestic income and share prices. Finally, we test whether the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469699
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360170
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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799
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Big Questions, Little Answers: Terrorism Activity, Investor Sentiment and Stock Returns
Drakos, Konstantinos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Motivated by the investor sentiment literature and assuming that terrorist activity influences investor mood the paper explores whether terrorism exerts a significant negative impact on daily stock market returns for a sample of 22 countries. The employed empirical specifications are based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071052
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Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy?: A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1-2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395418
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms: A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556651
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Local Banking and Local Economic Growth in Italy: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colli, Stefano Di; Salvo, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
estimation bias resulting from unobserved district-specific influences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896183
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Savings in Central Eastern Europe
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001
. We use panel data over the period 1989-1998 and estimate a fixed-effects model. In Central Eastern European Countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963633
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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries
Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed consideration of the time dimension, poverty incidence, poverty gap and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963684
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firm Leverage
Baum, Christopher F.; Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
-certainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of borrowing. We test this proposition using a panel of non{financial US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963696