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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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The effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes : evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Mansour, Hani - 2010
Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974532
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Modeling spillovers and feedback of international trade in a disequilibrium framework
Beck, Martin; Winker, Peter - In: Economic modelling 21 (2004) 3, pp. 445-470
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The importance of global shocks for national policymakers : rising challenges for central banks
Belke, Ansgar; Rees, Andreas - 2009
We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether there is increasing uncertainty for central banks due...
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When does it hurt? : the exchange rate "pain threshold" for German exports
Belke, Ansgar; Goecke, Matthias; Günther, Martin - 2009
This paper deals with the impact of the $/¿ exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify "pain thresholds" for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR...
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Common shocks, common dynamics, and the international business cycle
Centoni, Marco; Cubadda, Gianluca; Hecq, Alain W. J. - In: Economic modelling 24 (2007) 1, pp. 149-166
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Long memory and volatility dynamics in the US dollar exchange rate
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010
This paper focuses on nominal exchange rates, specifically the US dollar rate vis-à-vis the Euro and the Japanese Yen at a daily frequency. We model both absolute values of returns and squared returns using long-memory techniques, being particularly interested in volatility modelling and...
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Long memory and fractional integration in high frequency financial time series
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2010
This paper analyses the long-memory properties of high frequency financial time series. It focuses on temporal aggregation and the influence that this might have on the degree of dependence of the series. Fractional integration or I(d) models are estimated with a variety of specifications for...
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Conditional volatility and correlations of weekly returns and the VaR analysis of 2008 stock market crash
Pesaran, Bahram; Pesaran, M. Hashem - In: Economic modelling 27 (2010) 6, pp. 1398-1416
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Global imbalances, cross-market linkages, and the financial crisis : a multivariate Markov-switching analysis
Chevallier, Julien - In: Economic modelling 29 (2012) 3, pp. 943-973
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