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Exchange Rate Volatility Effects on the German Labour Market: A Survey of Recent Results and Extensions
Buscher, Herbert S.; Mueller, Claudia - 1999
In this paper, a survey on theoretically expected and empirically proved impacts of exchange rate volatility is given …. With regard to the West German unemployment, the effects of volatility are empirically analysed using three different … volatility measures and four country groups. In autoregressive models, a significant disturbing impact of volatility can be found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262270
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Private information, human capital, and optimal 'home bias' in financial markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or home bias, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the bias to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286893
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Less myth, more measurement: Decomposing excess returns from the 1989 minimum wage hike
Lin, Carl - 2012
In the book Myth and Measurement, Card and Krueger (1995) examine the economic impact of the 1989 minimum wage hike on the welfare of 110 firms which employ a disproportionate number of minimum-wage workers. Their results show mixed evidence that excess returns associated with news about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282630
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Decomposing excess returns in stochastic linear models
Lin, Carl - 2011
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition result from two random linear functions in which the result can be applied to most models using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286879
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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - 2010
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276268
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Identification of New Keynesian Phillips Curves from a Global Perspective
Dees, Stephane; Pesaran, Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
New Keynesian Phillips Curves (NKPC) have been extensively used in the analysis of monetary policy, but yet there are a number of issues of concern about how they are estimated and then related to the underlying macroeconomic theory. The first is whether such equations are identified. To check...
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth : Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
Belke, Ansgar; Setzer, Ralph - 2004
highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may as well signal high costs for labor markets. The impact of exchange … rate volatility on labor markets in the CEECs is analyzed, finding that volatility vis?- vis the euro significantly lowers … employment growth. Hence, the elimination of exchange rate volatility could be considered as a substitute for a removal of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261804
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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000
Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268236
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The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine; Rault, Christophe - 2015
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain). Using logistic smooth transition models, we explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401735
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
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