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fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
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This paper explores French assets returns predictability within a VAR setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2006Q4, it turns out that bonds, equities and bills returns are actually predictable. This feature implies that the investment horizon does indeed matter in the asset allocation. The...
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micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …
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This paper explores empirically the link between French equities returns Value-at-Risk (VaR) and the state of financial markets cycle. The econometric analysis is based on a simple vector autoregression setup. Using quarterly data from 1970Q4 to 2008Q3, it turns out that the k-year VaR of French...
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parameters at each frequency separately, and adopt this framework to model quarterly prices in three European countries (France …, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the …
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including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as …
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Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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This paper explores the prisoner's dilemma that may result when workers and firms are involved in labour disputes and must decide whether to hire a lawyer to be represented at trial. Using a representative data set of labour disputes in the UK and a large population of French unfair dismissal...
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