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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence

Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001

whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the …

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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...

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The impact of product and labour market reform on growth : evidence for OECD countries based on local projections

Haan, Jakob de; Wiese, Rasmus - 2020

This paper examines the impact of labour and product market reforms on economic growth in 25 OECD countries between 1985 and 2013, and tests whether this impact is conditioned by the fiscal policy stance, i.e. whether there are fiscal expansions or adjustments. Our local projection results...

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What drives financial development? : a meta-regression analysis

Doucouliagos, Chris; Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020

This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...

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The KOF Globalisation Index : revisited

Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018

We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic … dimension of globalization and use time-varying weighting of the variables. The new index is based on 43 instead of 23 variables …

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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Sturm, Jan-Egbert (contributor); … - 2006

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Coherence of output gaps in the euro area : the impact of the Covid-19 shock

Haan, Jakob de; Jacobs, Jan; Zijm, Renske - 2022

Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...

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Does economic policy uncertainty encourage gambling? : evidence from the Chinese welfare lottery market

Xu, Can; Steiner, Andreas; Haan, Jakob de - 2023

This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that EPU increases the demand for hope which raises the willingness to pay for lottery tickets, resulting in higher lottery sales. We estimate a...

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Political regime change, economic reform and growth accelerations

Jong-A-Pin, Richard (contributor); … - 2007

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