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Barriers to trade in financial and insurance services : evidence from the United Kingdom
Podpiera, Jiří - 2021
exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk … suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796259
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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Activity in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2005
Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401137
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Environmental tax reform : principles from theory and practice to date
Heine, Dirk; Nørregaard, John; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2012
energy/environmental tax systems in Germany, Sweden, Turkey, and Vietnam suggests that there is substantial scope for policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694116
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What are the economic effects of pandemic containment policies? : evidence from Sweden
Bricco, Jana; Misch, Florian; Solovʹeva, Aleksandra S. - 2020
This paper examines the economic effects of policies to contain Covid-19, by extracting lessons from Sweden …'s experience during the 'Great Lockdown'. Sweden's approach was less stringent and based more on social responsibility than legal … obligations compared to European peers. First, we provide an account of Sweden's strategy and the health outcomes. Second, drawing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012302076
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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries
Karpowicz, Izabela; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020
Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170132
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Does the clarity of inflation reports affect volatility in financial markets?
Bulíř, Aleš; Čihák, Martin; Jansen, David-Jan - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441876
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Inflation Targeting Under Asymmetric Preferences
Ruge-Murcia, Francisco Javier - 2001
''s preference parameters for Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom are statistically different from the one implied by the commonly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400680
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Alternative Methods of Estimating Potential Output and the Output Gap : An Application to Sweden
Saxena, Sweta Chaman - 2000
methods to the case of Sweden, showing the range of estimates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399814
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The Fiscal Stance in Sweden : A Generational Accounting Perspective
John, Christoph - 1995
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014395956
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Does the Clarity of Inflation Reports Affect Volatility in Financial Markets?
Bulir, Ales - 2014
We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure clarity of reports by the Czech National Bank, the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and Sveriges Riksbank using the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, a standard readability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014411635