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Crises, labor market policy, and unemployment
Bernal Verdugo, Lorenzo Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; … - 2012
Using a sample of 97 countries spanning the period 1980?2008, we estimate that financial crises have a large negative impact on unemployment in the short term, but that this effect rapidly disappears in the medium term in countries with flexible labor market institutions, whereas the impact of...
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International Income Convergence
Francois, Joseph F. - 2008
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Output Drops and the Shocks That Matter.
Becker, Törbjörn I - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. MOTIVATION AND RELATED STUDIES -- II. OUTPUT DROPS -- III. SHOCKS -- IV. MULTIVARIATE PROBIT ANALYSIS -- V. ROBUSTNESS AND EXTENSIONS -- VI. CONCLUSIONS -- APPENDIX TABLES AND FIGURES -- APPENDIX I. HODRICK-PRESCOTT-FILTER BASED DEFINITION OF EVENTS -- APPENDIX II. KERNEL...
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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World : A Dynamic General Equilibrium Analysis
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …
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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space
Beyer, Robert - 2022
This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for...
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Political Institutions and Output Collapses
Imam, Patrick - 2023
Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059959
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Trade Openness and Volatility
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2008
This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is...
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Life Expectancy and Income Convergence in the World
Ueda, Kenichi - 2008
There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677614
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Foreign banks : trends, impact and financial stability
Claessens, Stijn; Horen, Neeltje van - 2012
This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
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Systemic banking crises database : an update
Laeven, Luc; Valencia, Fabian - 2012
We update the widely used banking crises database by Laeven and Valencia (2008, 2010) with new information on recent and ongoing crises, including updated information on policy responses and outcomes (i.e. fiscal costs, output losses, and increases in public debt). We also update our dating of...
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