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Are Entrepreneurs Aware of Covered Interest Parity and Dollar Shortage?
Nariman, Farhad; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
The purpose of this study is demonstrating why entrepreneurs should monitor the broad dollar index. This paper explains the reason why the broad dollar index has become a risk (leverage) gauge since 2008 using the Covered Interest Parity (CIP). CIP can be viewed as a reflection of the shadow...
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Trade and Worker Deskilling
Dhingra, Swati - 2019
This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that … occurred in any of the world's four major currencies since the collapse of Bretton Woods. Exploiting this variation, the paper … intermediate imports. This provides new direct evidence that, in the modern world of global value chains, it is changes in the cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868799
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The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade : An Asymmetric Analysis
Ferjani, Sabrine; Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, … - 2022
Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and realistic framework allowing for possible asymmetric effects. We use monthly time-series data over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083735
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834526
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Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
Görg, Holger - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959060
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How Prevalent is Downward Rigidity in Nominal Wages? International Evidence from Payroll Records and Pay Slips
Elsby, Michael - 2019
For more than 80 years, many macroeconomic analyses have been premised on the assumption that workers' nominal wage rates cannot be cut. Contrary evidence from household surveys reasonably has been discounted on the ground that the measurement of frequent wage cuts might be an artifact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870447
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874
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Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing : International Longitudinal Evidence
Salvatori, Andrea - 2010
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the levels of employment and unemployment have been extensively studied, but nothing is known empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148289
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Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession : An International Perspective
Bargain, Olivier - 2014
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy changes. The period examined, 2008 to 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061934
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Modelling Volatilities and Conditional Correlations in Futures Markets with a Multivariate T Distribution
Pesaran, Bahram; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2021
This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returns computed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC...
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