Showing 1 - 7 of 7
Viele Fragen rund um den Brexit sind weiterhin offen. Es kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden, dass sich Großbritannien und die Europäische Union nicht auf einen Austrittsvertrag einigen können. Dann könnte es zu einem sogenannten harten Brexit (No-Deal Brexit) kommen. Wir haben die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012135328
This paper compares macroeconomic effects of Knightian uncertainty and risk using policy shocks for the case of Italy … measures for uncertainty and risk. The identification exploits the quasi-pessimistic behavior under ambiguity-aversion and the …-ask spread. In contrast, a pure change in risk shifts the risk-compensating discount factor which is well approximated by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467072
We provide the first systematic evidence on the effectiveness of a contested policy in Germany to help displaced workers. So-called “transfer companies” (Transfergesellschaften) employ displaced workers for a fixed period, during which time workers are provided with job-search assistance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336188
After a temporary period of a fixed exchange rate regime pegging the Polish zloty to the U.S. dollar, Poland established a preannounced crawling peg regime on October 15, 1991. In this system the zloty is tied to a currency basket and devalued with a preannounced monthly rate (rate of crawl). If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009612052
A small macroeconomic model is constructed to study the transmission of the monetary policy conducted by the Deutsche Bundesbank (DBB) since the middle of the 1970s. For this purpose quarterly, seasonally unadjusted data for the period from 1975 to 1998 are used, that is, the period until the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009616780
This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the average treatment effect for the treated, we focus on discrimination in the funding rules as potential source of effect heterogeneity. We combine the difference-in-differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435448
This study estimates the establishment-level employment effects of investment grants in Germany. In addition to the average treatment effect on the treated, we analyse the influence of establishment’s characteristics and economic environment on the magnitude of the effect. We apply a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025784