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Are entrepreneurs aware of covered interest parity and dollar shortage?
Nariman, Farhad; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
The purpose of this study is demonstrating why entrepreneurs should monitor the broad dollar index. This paper explains the reason why the broad dollar index has become a risk (leverage) gauge since 2008 using the Covered Interest Parity (CIP). CIP can be viewed as a reflection of the shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173246
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Trade and worker deskilling
Costa, Rui; Dhingra, Swati; Machin, Stephen - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022416
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research : (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879347
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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428114
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Which schools and pupils respond to educational achievement surveys? : a focus on the English PISA sample
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Durrant, Gabriele B.; Micklewright, John - 2014
Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for England. The analysis exploits unusually rich auxiliary information on all schools and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398731
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Socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive skills : are cross-country comparisons robust to who reports family background?
Jerrim, John; Micklewright, John - 2014
The international surveys of pupil achievement - PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS - have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic status is typically measured drawing on children's reports of family or home characteristics rather...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398844
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Prices, policing and policy : the dynamics of crime booms and busts
Kirchmaier, Tom; Machin, Stephen; Sandi, Matteo; Witt, … - 2018
the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by world commodity prices, the incidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853434
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How prevalent is downward rigidity in nominal wages? : international evidence from payroll records and pay slips
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Solon, Gary - 2019 - This version: January 25, 2019
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977635
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Driving the gig economy
Abraham, Katharine G.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Hou, Claire; … - 2024
Using rich administrative tax data, we explore the effects of the introduction of online ridesharing platforms on entry, employment and earnings in the Taxi and Limousine Services industry. Ridesharing dramatically increased the pace of entry of workers into the industry. New entrants were more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637338
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Modelling volatilities and conditional correlations in futures markets with a multivariate t distribution
Pesaran, Bahram (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returns computed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586562