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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the … period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link … between globalization and income inequality differs across different groups of countries. There is a robust positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Choosing institutional over economic integration : are there growth effects?
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251077
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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?
Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … the Fraser Institute. The results from both cross-sectional and panel regressions using ordinary least squares indicate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528971
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Structural reforms and income inequality : who benefits from market-oriented reforms?
Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2020
We examine how structural reforms relate to income inequality. We employ many indicators of structural reforms and use data for market and net income inequality. The dataset includes up to 135 countries since 1960. The results do not suggest that market-oriented structural reforms were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154916
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Institutional integration and productivity growth : evidence from the 1995 enlargement of the European Union
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Franceschi, Emanuele - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703316
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Linkages between the US and European stock markets : a fractional cointegration approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2015
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of US and European stock indices, as well as their linkages, using fractional integration and fractional cointegration techniques. These methods are more general and have higher power than the standard ones usually employed in the literature. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343058
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Youth unemployment in Europe : persistence and macroeconomic determinants
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2014
This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number of European countries. First, it explores its short and long memory properties by estimating both autoregressive and fractional integration models. This type of analysis sheds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256726
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The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on persistence in the European stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Arrese … - 2021
This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the degree of persistence of European stock markets. Specifically, it uses fractional integration methods to estimate persistence at the daily, weekly and monthly frequencies in the case of ten major European stock market indices; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653308
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Unemployment persistence in Europe : evidence from the 27 EU countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Trejo, … - 2021
This paper investigates unemployment persistence in the 27 EU member states by applying fractional integration methods to quarterly data (both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted) from 2000q1 to 2020q4. The obtained evidence points to high levels of persistence in all cases. With seasonally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668044