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This study examines the nature of the linkages between stock market prices and exchange rates in six advanced economies, namely the US, the UK, Canada, Japan, the euro area, and Switzerland, using data on the banking crisis between 2007 and 2010. Bivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated...
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Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots …
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Using a representative online panel from the US, we examine how individuals' macroeconomic expectations causally affect …
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This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with unionized labor markets. By accounting for productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the impact of trade liberalization on employment, welfare, and...
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The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
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(industry) level by applying the Phillips-Sul (2007) tests for panel and club convergence. The main findings can be summarised … Telecommunication, both in a turn-around phase, and Gas & Oil and Technology, for which there is no panel convergence. Club convergence … tests reveal the existence of convergence clubs and divergent economies within the full panel, which explains why panel …
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by applying “second generation” panel cointegration techniques. A unique identification strategy for the selection of sub …‐panels improves the robustness of panel cointegration tests and reveals that Laender finances are hardly sustainable …
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In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...
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exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World …
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