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Terrorism and misperceptions : evidence from Europe
Arin, Kerim Peren; Khalil, Umair; Mazrekaj, Deni; Thum, … - 2023
How does exposure to Islamist terrorism change perceptions of the share of Muslims and immigrants? We conduct a large-scale survey that measures misperceptions towards minority groups in four European countries. Our results show that terror attacks in the past increased misperceptions of the...
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It's the media, stupid : how media activity shapes public spending
Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - 2008
Politicians seeking reelection need voters to know what they have done for them. Thus, incentives may arise to spend more money where media coverage is higher. We present a simple model to explain the allocation of public spending across jurisdictions contingent on media activity. An incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803533
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Endogenous optimum currency areas and the blend of sectors : on the determinants of business cycle correlation across European regions
Belke, Ansgar - In: Journal of economic integration 22 (2007) 1, pp. 26-49
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789886
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Economic, political and institutional determinants of budget deficits in the European Union
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
Using an extended data set of EU countries ranging from 1971-2006 and relevant econometric methods, we investigate the … economic, political, and institutional determinants of government deficits in the EU. The results show a strong opportunistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831961
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The determinants of economic growth in European regions
Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - 2009
countries is mostly a characteristic of regions in old EU member states. We also find robust evidence of positive growth of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806087
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Inflation dynamics in the euro area and in new EU members : implications for monetary policy
Hondroyiannis, George B.; Swamy, Paravastu A. V. B.; … - In: Economic modelling 25 (2008) 6, pp. 1116-1127
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Economic and political determinants of budget deficits in the European Union : a dynamic random coefficient approach
Bayar, Ali H.; Smeets, Bram - 2009
deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808131
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Bootstrap panel Granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based … budget deficits to current account deficits for several EU countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France … deficit ; external imbalance ; real exchange rates ; EU ; OECD …
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Price dispersion in the Euro Area : the case of a symmetric oil price shock
Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009
This paper studies the causes of price dispersion in the euro area emerging in response to a shock that hits all member countries symmetrically. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1996 - 2007 to generate impulse responses of a range of price and wage variables to an oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871916
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Default predictors and credit scoring models for retail banking
Kočenda, Evžen; Vojtek, Martin - 2009
This paper develops a specification of the credit scoring model with high discriminatory power to analyze data on loans at the retail banking market. Parametric and non- parametric approaches are employed to produce three models using logistic regression (parametric) and one model using...
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