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The IOC's Midas Touch : Summer Olympics and City Growth
Nitsch, Volker - 2013
types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076734
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Too Many Cooks? Committees in Monetary Policy
Berger, Helge - 2013
How many people should decide about monetary policy? In this paper, we take an empirical perspective on this issue, analyzing the relationship between the number of monetary policy decision-makers and monetary policy outcomes. Using a new data set that characterizes Monetary Policy Committees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753618
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Central Bank Boards Around the World : Why Does Membership Size Differ?
Berger, Helge - 2013
This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as … 84 central bank boards at the end of 2003. We find that larger and more heterogeneous countries, countries with stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754018
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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade
Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - 2021
the world's five largest importers for the period from 2002-2006, we find that the reporting gaps are highly correlated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316439