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IMF Surveillance and Financial Markets - A Political Economy Analysis
Fratzscher, Marcel - 2014
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...
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Macro News and Stock Returns in the Euro Area : A VAR-GARCH-in-Mean Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of newspaper coverage of macro news on stock returns in eight countries belonging to the euro area (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) using daily data for the period 1994-2013. The econometric analysis is based on the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048822
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Dividend Taxation and the Cost of New Share Issues
Lindhe, Tobias - 2014
This paper examines how the effects of dividend taxation on the cost of new equity funds depend on whether or not … shareholders can recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative … that the shareholders cannot recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045348
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Dividend Taxation, Share Repurchases and the Equity Trap
Lindhe, Tobias; Södersten, Jan Edvin - 2021
This paper reconsiders the effects of dividend taxation. Particular attention is paid to the form of the "equity trap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316375
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Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures
Habermacher, Florian - 2013
The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093629
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Announcing is Bad, Delaying is Worse : Another Pitfall in Well-Intended Climate Policy
Jus, Darko; Meier, Volker - 2021
It is frequently observed that the implementation of green policies is delayed compared to the initial announcement. Considering a setting with a representative monopolist extracting a non-renewable resource, we demonstrate that announcing a green policy, but then delaying its implementation, is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315904
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Announcing Climate Policy : Can a Green Paradox Arise Without Scarcity?
Smulders, Sjak - 2013
Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a “Green-Paradox,” in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093954
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Asset Pricing Implications of a New Keynesian Model : A Note
Heer, Burkhard - 2013
De Paoli, Scott, and Weeken (2010, Asset pricing implications of a New Keynesian model. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34, 2056-73) study equity and bonds prices in a New Keynesian model with sticky nominal prices. This note argues that their model generates a behavior of the labor...
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Monetary Policy Through Production Networks : Evidence from the Stock Market
Ozdagli, Ali K. - 2017
Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953959
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Modeling Damages in Climate Policy Models : Temperature-Based or Carbon-Based?
Mason, Charles F. - 2015
Economists have analyzed potential for damages from climate change from theoretical analyses and with Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). Analytical models typically write damages as a function of the carbon stock, while IAMs typically view damages as based on temperatures. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024489