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Monetary commitment and structural reforms: A dynamic panel analysis for transition economies

Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

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Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth : Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies

Belke, Ansgar; Setzer, Ralph - 2004

According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the exchange rate. This paper takes a different approach and highlights the fact that high exchange rate volatility may...

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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

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Structural reforms and the exchange rate regime: a panel analysis for the world versus OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - 2005

estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between …

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Ethnic networks and US exports

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which show that previous estimates of the...

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Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012

those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …

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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

richest exhibit a strikingly similar pattern, falling in the three decades after World War II, before rising sharply from the …

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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK

Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...

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