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Orphanhood and critical periods in children's human capital formation: Long-run evidence from North-Western Tanzania
Hagen, Jens; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010
-term health status as measured by body height, children who lose their same-sex parent before teenage years are hit hardest …. Maternal bereavement does not fit into this pattern as it affects educational attainment of younger and older children in a … preferences of the surviving parent partly protect same-sex children from orphanhood's detrimental effects on human capital …
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Real Wages and Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
McCallum, Andrew H. - 2011
We use the Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression (FAVAR) approach of Bernanke, Boivin and Eliasz (2005) to estimate the effects of monetary policy shocks on wages and employment in the euro area. The use of a large data set comprising country, sectoral and euro area-wide data allows us to...
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Do Trade and Investment Agreements Lead to More FDI? Accounting for Key Provisions Inside the Black Box
Berger, Axel - 2011
The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as black boxes, despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...
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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2011
investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be …
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Globalization, pass-through and inflation dynamic
Benigno, Pierpaolo; Faia, Ester - 2010
An important aspect of the globalization process is the increase in interdependence among countries through the deepening of trade linkages. This process should increase competition in each destination market and change the pricing behavior of firms. We present an extension of Dornbusch (1987)'s...
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What can a New Keynesian labor matching model match?
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009
A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and...
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New evidence, old puzzles: technology shocks and labor market dynamics
Balleer, Almut - 2009
Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly interpreted as technology shocks. I estimate different...
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Explaining shifts in the unemployment rate with productivity slowdowns and accelerations: a co-breaking approach
Schreiber, Sven - 2009
We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U.S. data in a framework of infrequent mean shifts. Tests find (endogenously dated) shifts around 1974, 1986, and 1996, system techniques indicate that the shifts are common...
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Spatial effects of foreign direct investment in US states
Bode, Eckhardt; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Waldkirch, Andreas - 2009
This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers...
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Predicting real exchange rates from real interest rate differentials and net foreign asset stocks: evidence for the mark/dollar parity
Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 1999
When nontraded goods prices are accounted for consistently and genuine stock data on bilateral foreign asset holdings is employed, a modified sticky-price exchange rate model by far outperforms the benchmark random walk-model in empirically forecasting the D-mark/dollar parity out of sample....
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