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Private savings in Eastern European EU-accession countries : evidence from a dynamic panel data model
Schrooten, Mechthild; Stephan, Sabine - 2003
After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to analyze the determinants of private saving in both country...
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Unemployment and portfolio choice : does persistence matter?
Kuzin, Vladimir; Bremus, Franziska M. - 2010
persistence. -- Precautionary savings ; unemployment insurance ; long-term unemployment ; income uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003934763
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Self-employment and economic performance : a geographically weighted regression approach for European regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
The self-employment rate includes entrepreneurs out of opportunity and entrepreneurs out of necessity. While the effect of opportunity entrepreneurs on economic development should be positive, there should be no or a negative effect of necessity entrepreneurship. We use a geographically weighted...
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Re-examining the decline in the US saving rate : the impact of mortgage equity withdrawal
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Costantini, Mauro; Paradiso, … - 2012
In this paper we examine the role of mortgage equity withdrawal in explaining the decline of the US saving rate, since when house prices rise and mortgage rates are low, homeowners have an incentive to withdraw housing equity and this may affect the saving rate. We estimate a Vector Error...
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Revisiting the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle with regime switching : new evidence from European countries
Chen, Shyh-Wei; Shen, Chung-hua - In: Economic modelling 49 (2015), pp. 254-259
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Does macroeconomic policy affect private savings in Europe? : Evidence from a dynamic panel data model
Schrooten, Mechtild (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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A long-run simulation model for analysing social security retirement policies
Richardson, David H. - In: Economic modelling 12 (1995) 4, pp. 415-424
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Social security privatization and financial market risk : lessons from US financial history
Burtless, Gary - 2000
hypothetical pensions U.S. workers would have obtained between 1911 and 1999 if they had accumulated retirement savings in … with a new system of mandatory defined-contribution private pensions. Proponents claim that private plans offer better … present in certain types of public retirement system, but a public system has one important advantage over private pensions …
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Price discovery and trade fragmentation in a multi-market environment : evidence from the MTS system
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2011
This paper proposes new metrics for the process of price discovery on the main electronic trading platform for euro-denominated government securities. Analysing price data on daily transactions for 107 bonds over a period of twenty-seven months, we find a greater degree of price leadership of...
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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict
Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019
With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the...
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