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Noise traders' trigger rates, FX options, and smiles
Pierdzioch, Christian - 2000
the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts … is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike structure is explained by focusing attention on the expected … characteristic convex shape of volatility strike structures documented in the empirical literature. A volatility-based test for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476532
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The effectiveness of the FX market interventions of the Bundesbank during the Louvre period : an options-based analysis
Pierdzioch, Christian - 2000
period to alter either the level or the volatility of the $/DM spot rate is examined. Volatility quotes implicit in foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476547
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A tale of two countries: a comparison of the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Germany
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
This paper compares the aggregate effects of sectoral reallocation in the United States and Western Germany using a … stochastic volatility model of sectoral employment growth. Reallocative shocks have no effect on the natural rate of unemployment … the rise in trend unemployment in Germany in the 1980s or for a possible rise in trend unemployment in the United States …
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They are even larger! : More (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825019
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Offshoring and labour market inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190184
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The aggregate effects of long run sectoral reallocation
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011
In this paper, I estimate a series of long run reallocative shocks to sectoral employment using a stochastic volatility … ; stochastic volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232259
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Expectations, monetary policy, and labor markets : lessons from the Great Depression
Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009
This paper estimates a series of shocks to hit the US economy during the Great Depression, using a New Keynesian model with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the cyclical behavior of employment, while an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872040
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Fiscal calculus in a New Keynesian model with matching frictions
Campolmi, Alessia; Faia, Ester; Winkler, Roland - 2010
The endorsement of expansionary fiscal packages has often been based on the idea that large multipliers can contrast rising unemployment. Is that really the case? We explore those issues in a New Keynesian model in which unemployment arises because of matching frictions. We compare fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940160
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins
Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999
-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using tests for cointegration and common features for monthly data during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474986