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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area
Leuvensteijn, Michiel van; Bikker, Jacob A.; Rixtel, … - 2007
on the lending markets in the five major EU countries as well as, for comparison, the UK, the US and Japan. Bearing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003484173
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? : new empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus (contributor); Čihák, Martin (contributor) - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789457
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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan
Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003
United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635881
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US, Japan and the euro area
McAdam, Peter - 2003
There has been much discussion of the differences in macroeconomic performance and prospects between the US, Japan and …, Japan and the euro area appear quite distinct. Documenting and comparing such international business-cycle features can aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635889
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The behaviour of the real exchange rate : evidence from regression quantiles
Nikolaou, Kleopatra (contributor) - 2006
We test for mean reversion in real exchange rates using a recently developed unit root test for non-normal processes based on quantile autoregression inference in semi-parametric and non-parametric settings. The quantile regression approach allows us to directly capture the impact of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358655
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include a high degree of regulation in wage setting in most countries. Although …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825968
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The Eurosystem, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan : similarities and differences
Gerdesmeier, Dieter (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper provides a systematic comparison of the Eurosystem, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003456409
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Unconventional monetary policy and the great recession : estimating the impact of a compression in the yield spread at the zero lower bound
Baumeister, Christiane; Benati, Luca - 2010
area, Japan, and U.K.) a compression in the long-term yield spread exerts a powerful effect on both output growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688522
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Are EC-Japan-US trade relations at the crossroads?
Sinha, Radha - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 25 (1990) 5, pp. 229-237
. The ultimate success of the negotiations largely depends on the attitudes of the USA, the EC and Japan. What are the main …
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The international competitiveness of Europe, the USA and Japan
Keller, Dietmar - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 20 (1985) 2, pp. 59-64
of the EC, the USA and Japan in international trade? How dependent are these three economic powers on the world market …The growing importance of Japan on the world market has brought with it changes in the international division of labour … and a shift in the focus of the expansion in world trade away from the EC and the USA. What factors determine the shares …
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