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The economic determinants of U.S. presidential approval : a survey
Berlemann, Michael; Enkelmann, Sören - 2012
economy. While about half of all studies for the United States find a significant effect of unemployment and inflation on … choice of the sample period is of crucial importance. While in the very long run we find unemployment, inflation and the …. -- presidential popularity ; approval ; unemployment ; inflation …
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Growing apart? : a tale of two republics: Estonia and Georgia
Thorvaldur Gylfason (contributor);  … - 2007
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Do minorities misrepresent their ethnicity to avoid discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz; Lergetporer, Philipp - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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Iceland : how could this happen?
Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014
This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and consequences of the crash. The review is presented in the context of the Nordic region, with broad comparisons also with developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in...
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Tracking weekly state-level economic conditions
Baumeister, Christiane; Leiva-León, Danilo; Sims, Eric R. - 2021
In this paper, we develop a novel dataset of weekly economic conditions indices for the 50 U.S. states going back to 1987 based on mixed-frequency dynamic factor models with weekly, monthly, and quarterly variables that cover multiple dimensions of state economies. We show that there is...
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How do expectations about the macroeconomy affect personal expectations and behavior?
Roth, Christopher; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2018
Using a representative online panel from the US, we examine how individuals' macroeconomic expectations causally affect their personal economic prospects and their behavior. To exogenously vary respondents' expectations we provide them with different professional forecasts about the likelihood...
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Uncertainty across volatility regimes
Angelini, Giovanni; Bacchiocchi, Emanuele; Caggiano, … - 2017
We propose a new non-recursive identification scheme for uncertainty shocks, which exploits breaks in the unconditional volatility of macroeconomic variables. Such identification approach allows us to simultaneously address two major questions in the empirical literature on uncertainty: (i) Does...
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Monetary policy and nominal rigidities under low inflation
Holden, Steinar - 2001
stronger bargaining position when they try to prevent a cut in money wages. If inflation is so low that some money wages have … to be cut, workers stronger bargaining position requires higher unemployment in equilibrium. However, inflation is more … stable when money wage rigidity binds, providing an incentive for monetary policy makers to choose a low target for inflation …
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Effects of tax depreciation rules on firms' investment decisions in an inflationary phase : comparison of net present values in selected OECD countries
Nam, Chang-woon - 2001
. Therefore, in periods with inflation generous tax depreciation provisions do not adequately promote private investment as … designed, but partly compensate such losses caused by inflation. …
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Inflation, endogenous market segmentation and the term structure of interest rates
Vries, Casper G. de; Wang, Xuedong - 2015
consider the implications of a risk premium that arises from endogenous market segmentation driven by variable inflation rates …. In the absence of autocorrelation in inflation, the risk premium is constant. If inflation is correlated, however, the …
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