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The private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education : a general framework and some results for the EU
Fuente, Ángel de la (contributor);  … - 2005
schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 … additional year of schooling for an individual of average attainment, taking into account the effects of education on wages and … education, and measures of the fiscal returns to schooling that capture the long-term effects of a marginal increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002577038
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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 behaviour of policymakers which leads to political...
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
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806087
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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
This paper formulates a dynamic Random Coefficient Model (RCM) to consider a set of popular determinants of public deficits in the EU-15 over the period 1971-2006, both at a country-specific level and from a population-wide perspective. Although the extent of government deficits and debt has...
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
We investigate the existence of Granger-causality between current account and government budget balances over the period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818006
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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
the client has, the level of education, marital status, the purpose of the loan, and the number of years the client has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910674
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Price formation on the EuroMTS platform
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2010
This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937257
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Short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields
Afonso, António - 2010
This study assesses the short and long-run behaviour of long-term sovereign bond yields in OECD countries, for the period 1973-2008. We employ a dynamic panel approach to reflect financial and economic integration, and to increase the performance and accuracy of the tests. Given the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732265
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Real convergence, price level convergence and inflation differentials in Europe
Égert, Balázs (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003620167