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This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. We divide each firm's investment total into a sequence of individual investment decisions and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision....
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Intervening in the FX market implies a complex decision process for central banks. Monetary authorities have to decide whether to intervene or not, and if so, when and how. Since the successive steps of this procedure are likely to be highly interdependent, we adopt a nested logit approach to...
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. These two effects are tested against each other in a cointegration analysis for Japan and the US from 1957 until 1997 …
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. These results are interesting not only for Japan, but also for other advanced economies where monetary policy is currently …
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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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employments in 19th-century Japan permits us to apply this approach to answer the following counterfactual: What factor … 1865-1876? Over the entire period, we find that trade was revealed to be equivalent to a 5.5% increase in Japan's female …
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-memory processes respectively. The evidence suggests that persistence is particularly high in Japan and some EU countries such as Spain …
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This article presents a systematic and extensive empirical study on the presence of Markov switching dynamics in three dollar-based exchange rates. A Monte Carlo approach is adopted to circumvent the statistical inference problem inherent to the test of regime-switching behavior. Two data...
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In this paper we test whether German public debt has been sustainable by resorting to a test proposed by Bohn (1998). We apply non-parametric and semi-parametric regressions with time depending coefficients. This test shows that the mean of the coefficient relevant for sustainability has been...
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This paper studies the long-run relationship between consumption, asset wealth and income in Germany, based on data … departures of these three variables from their common trend signal changes in asset prices, we find that for Germany they predict … Germany than in the Anglo-Saxon economies and the share of publicly traded equity in household wealth is much smaller in …
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