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Will women save more than men? : a theoretical model of savings and marriage
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Pereira, Alfredo M. - 2010
higher marriage rates and higher divorce rates will be associated with higher savings rates in the presence of economies of … marriage and with lower savings rates in the presence of diseconomies of marriage. In the context of traditional gender roles … traditional gender roles and marital status to understanding cross-country variation in gender differentials in savings behavior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003997600
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Home bank intermediation of foreign direct investment
Poelhekke, Steven - 2011
This paper investigates the benefits of banks' direct investment in foreign subsidiaries and branches for non-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host countries, rather than for its international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153880
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009
This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898817
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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem?
Holzmann, Robert - 2000
Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781581
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family structure and the geographic proximity between adult children and their parents. We then examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003945827
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Trade costs, trade balances and current accounts : an application of gravity to multilateral trade
Fazio, Giorgio (contributor); MacDonald, Ronald (contributor) - 2005
In this paper we test the well-known hypothesis of Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) that trade costs are the key to explaining the so-called Feldstein-Horioka puzzle. Using a gravity framework in an intertemporal context, we provide strong support for the hypothesis and we reconcile our results with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003120614
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Reasons for the demise of interest : savings glut and secular stagnation or central bank policy?
Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is linked to slowing population growth and a declining marginal … permanently. Furthermore, we find no empirical evidence for the global savings glut and secular stagnation hypotheses. Instead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124862
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Macroeconomics and the environment : a selective survey
Sen, Partha - 2020
Macroeconomics deals with economics at the aggregate level. This could be at a national level or the interaction between nations. Production of output necessarily involves pollution and degrading the environment. Therefore, environmental issues enter inevitably. Some problems that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177002
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International reserves before and after the global crisis : is there no end to hoarding?
Aizenman, Joshua; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2015
We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490278
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Commodity price volatility, democracy and economic growth
Arezki, Rabah; Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355147