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the U.S. and Japan across seven sectors. Ignoring parameter heterogeneity results in far riskier credit portfolios. …
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World Cup finals were the first mega-event hosted by reunified Germany. We use this landmark event in German contemporary … history to investigate how the integration of the two parts of Germany progressed after 18 years of reunification. We still …
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Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
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, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …, Italy, Japan, and the United States. In all six countries we find a strong negative relationship between a city's share of …
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; language ; culture ; internal migration ; gravity ; Germany …
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Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
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The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment...
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