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modeling this market’s high volatility to prevent against crises.The strong linkage of the American and European New Technology …
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In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...
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a proportionality constant which is comparable to the spot rate volatility. This suggests that forward rate market … volatility `hump' around one year found by several authors (and which we confirm). Finally, the number of independent components …
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Do Islamic banks perform efficiently? Although the phenomenon of Islamic banking and finance has developed significantly in recent years, only very few studies have tackled this central question. This paper provides new evidence on the performance of 18 Islamic banks over the period 1997-2000....
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This paper applies the technique of Granger Causality to determine the relationship between total government …
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timing framework and a more general causality specification. The empirical results lead to the following conclusions. First …
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We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US....
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short run and in the long run, and third, to investigate the direction of causality between these two variables. To … the third objective, it emerges that in the great majority of two-digit manufactur-ing industries the causality runs from … cost function, and run the appropriate stability and causality tests. …
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causality relationship is much stronger when one market trades right after another. Although our results show violations of …. Instead, these strong causality relationships may be due to some unique characteristics of each of three currency markets …
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