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GDP, consumption, investment, export, import and general government debt for a group of ten countries from the Central and …
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The timing of investment and capital stock accumulation can differ as a result of time-to-build or delivery lags. In …
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The paper investigates investment decisions by using a new source of data, that is the OBI annual survey on firms. The … main focus of our analysis mainly is the influence of credit market conditions on investment decisions and we find that the … main obstacle to the investment is the level of guarantees that bank demand to grant loans. This element was a constant …
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This paper investigates the time-varying correlation between the EU12-wide business cycle and the initial EU12 member-countries based on Scalar-BEKK and multivariate Riskmetrics model frameworks for the period 1980-2012. The paper provides evidence that changes in the business cycle...
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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of neighboring cities tend to be more similar to one another than are those of non-neighboring cities, although this is due primarily to neighbors' tendency to be in the same state. In...
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This two-part working paper series represents a distillation of practical approaches with regard to the successful management of so-called “legacy assets” which include both impaired as well as non-performing loans, particularly in those in the real estate and property sectors. This two-part...
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This article explores the manipulation of published financial reports in order to counter perceived unfavourable impact, on an entity, of newly introduced regulations. The article departs from the traditional analysis of asset depreciation in manufacturing or mining and the link between market...
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One of the often discussed negative aspects of the Stability and Growth Pact is the rigidity of its deficit rule. Several reform proposals aim currently at alleviating the rule in order to allow the automatic stabilizers to operate freely. However, such a reform is likely to cause even further...
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digit inflation was reached, and yet growth rate was doubled compared to the previous decade average. As a result investment … climate improved and the economy benefited from substantial amount of foreign direct investment and other long-term capital …
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The paper examines marketing patterns when interest and storage loss rates are greater in rural zones, representing informal sector storage usually on-farm, than in urban zones, representing formal sector storage off-farm. Empirical results indicate that divergences in interest and storage loss...
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