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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084585
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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel
Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114210
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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661487
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A Small Quarterly Projection Model of the US Economy
Ermolaev, Igor; Juillard, Michel; Carabenciov, Ioan; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This is the first of a series of papers that are being written as part of a project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263685
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A Small Quarterly Multi-Country Projection Model with Financial-Real Linkages and Oil Prices
Juillard, Michel; Freedman, Charles; Korshunov, Dmitry; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This is the third of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264080
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A Small Quarterly Multi-Country Projection Model
Laxton, Jared; Ermolaev, Igor; Freedman, Charles; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This is the second of a series of papers that are being written as part of a larger project to estimate a small quarterly Global Projection Model (GPM). The GPM project is designed to improve the toolkit for studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we estimate a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005825847
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Structural Models in Real Time
Clinton, Kevin; Johnson, Marianne; Benes, Jaromir; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper outlines a simple approach for incorporating extraneous predictions into structural models. The method allows the forecaster to combine predictions derived from any source in a way that is consistent with the underlying structure of the model. The method is flexible enough that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519485
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Regulatory Capital Charges for too-Connected-To-Fail Institutions; A Practical Proposal
Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
The recent financial crisis has highlighted once more that interconnectedness in the financial system is a major source of systemic risk. I suggest a practical way to levy regulatory capital charges based on the degree of interconnectedness among financial institutions. Namely, the charges are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470375
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The Impact of Corporate Governance Structureson the Agency Cost of Debt
Chan-Lau, Jorge A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
with a minority stake delays the exit decision and reduces the underinvestment problem. Such a governance structure may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599700
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Equity Prices, Credit Default Swaps, and Bond Spreads in Emerging Markets
Chan-Lau, Jorge A.; Kim, Yoon Sook - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004
empirical findings on corporate issuers in the United States and Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605007