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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861817
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Does culture affect unemployment? : evidence from the Röstigraben
Brügger, Beatrix; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local comparisons across a language barrier in Switzerland. This Röstigraben separates cultural groups, but neither labor markets nor political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872714
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Makroökonomische Bedeutung von Vermögenspreisblasen : eine Event-Studie für G4-Länder
Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - In: Ifo-Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 19, pp. 13-33
Der Beitrag beleuchtet im Rahmen einer Event-Studie für Deutschland, Großbritannien, Japan und die Vereinigten Staaten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003381005
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514127
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The structure of income in elderly households and relative poverty rates in Japan from the viewpoint of international comparisons
Murozumi, Masako (contributor); Shikata, Masato (contributor) - 2008
We examine the poverty rates and the income configurations among Japan and the LIS countries. The LIS countries are … Germany, Italy, the UK, Denmark, the US, and Taiwan. We divide household including elderly into five types: living alone … decreasing recently in Japan. In Japan and Taiwan even in households cohabiting with children, the poverty rates and income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749008
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Is foreign exchange delta hedging risk priced?
Guo, Hui (contributor); Neely, Christopher J. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"If there is no priced risk--including volatility risk--associated with hedging an option, then expected delta hedging errors should be zero. This paper finds that delta hedging errors of a synthetic at-the-money call option on foreign exchange futures are significantly positive and cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002421353
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Is the currency risk priced in equity markets?
Giurda, Francesco (contributor); Tzavalis, Elias (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002024385
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International evidence on the sources of macroeconomic fluctuations
Bergman, Michael U. - In: European economic review : EER 40 (1996) 6, pp. 1237-1258
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001202719
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Is there trend reversion in purchasing power parity?
Ardeni, Pier Giorgio - In: European economic review : EER 35 (1991) 5, pp. 1035-1055
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001108184