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'By a silken thread': Regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession
Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2013
How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …
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Partisan Bias in Inflation Expectations
Bachmann, Oliver; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2019
We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed’s Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...
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Partisan Bias in Inflation Expectations
Bachmann, Oliver - 2019
We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0.46 percentage points higher in Republican-dominated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860297
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Happiness and financial satisfaction in Israel: Effects of religiosity, ethnicity, and war
van Praag, Bernard M. S.; Romanov, Dmitri; … - 2010
significant difference between second-generation families and native families. The effect of the Lebanon War is much less than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274729
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The Long-Term Effect of Western Customs Institution on Firm Innovation in China
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the foreign-run Chinese Maritime Customs Service (CMC), known for its efficient and transparent governance, took over some of the notoriously corrupt Chinese Native Custom stations and...
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Economic Analysis and Forecasting in the Global Economy and in Emerging and Developing Regions Including Africa: How Informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?
Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016
Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....
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The Effects of International Sanctions on Military Spending of Iran: A Synthetic Control Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019
We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179736
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The Effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" Protests on Life Satisfaction in Iran: Evidence from Survey Data
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted in 2022. Our results, based on an ordered logit...
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One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy: A curse or a blessing?
Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2013
This paper examines the impact of oil revenues on the Iranian economy over the past hundred years, spanning the period 1908-2010. It is shown that although oil has been produced in Iran over a very long period, its importance in the Iranian economy was relatively small up until the early 1960s....
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The Effects of International Sanctions on Military Spending of Iran : A Synthetic Control Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019
We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859051