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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Malley, James R.; … - 2003
economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …
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A public good version of the collective household model : an empirical approach with an application to British household data
Klaveren, Chris Van (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630663
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Privatising network industries
Newbery, David M. G. - 2004
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The UK's privatisation experiment : the passage of time permits a sober assessment
Parker, David - 2004
This chapter looks at the UK s privatisation experiment, which began from the late 1970s. It considers the background … to the UK s privatisations, which industries were privatised and how, and summarises the results of studies of … performance changes in privatised companies in the UK. It looks at the relative roles of competition, regulation and ownership …
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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
On 23 June 2016, the British electorate voted to leave the European Union. We analyze vote and turnout shares across 380 local authority areas in the United Kingdom. We find that exposure to the EU in terms of immigration and trade provides relatively little explanatory power for the referendum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646454
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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom
Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017
The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...
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Vehicle currency pricing and exchange rate pass-through
Chen, Natalie; Chung, Wanyu; Novy, Dennis - 2019
Using detailed firm-level transactions data for UK imports, we find that invoicing in a vehicle currency is pervasive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029070
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Who voted for Brexit? : individual and regional data combined
Alabrese, Eleonora; Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; … - 2018
-level data on thousands of respondents in Understanding Society, the UK's largest household survey, which includes the EU … fallacy. In addition, we show that prediction accuracy is geographically heterogeneous across UK regions, with strongly pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891769
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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials
Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003
The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506475
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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659