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Schoenmaker, Dirk; Siegmann, Arjen - 2012

in Europe. We consider bank bailouts for these banks in a simulation framework with stochastic country-specific bailout …

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The Impact of Cross-Border Banking on Financial Stability

Schoenmaker, Dirk; Wagner, Wolf - 2011

This paper focuses on the stability aspects of cross-border banking. We first argue that cross-border banking brings about various benefits and costs for financial stability. Based on this, we draw conclusions for the desirability of cross-border banking in the EU, and derive implications for...

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Systemic Risk Diagnostics

Schwaab, Bernd; Lucas, Andre; Koopman, Siem Jan - 2010

, and the rest of the world. Controlling for global,region-specific, and industry effects, we construct coincident measures …

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Your Next of Kin or your Own Career? Caring and Working among the 50+ of Europe

Bolin, K.; Lindgren, B.; Lundborg, P. - 2007

outcomes of providing informal care to one’s elderly parent(-s) among the 50+ of Europe. Data from SHARE (Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe) was used to examine the association between, on the one hand, hours of informal care … and the number of hours worked, respectively, of informal-care provision was found to be stronger in central Europe than …

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Self-Employment around Retirement Age

Hochguertel, Stefan - 2010

This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...

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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions

Burger, Martijn J.; van der Knaap, Bert; Wall, Ronald S. - 2012

sectors of the world economy. Despite the rich theoretical discourse on these 'wars', it remains unclear which territories are …

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Bago d'Uva, Teresa; Lindeboom, Maarten; O'Donnell, Owen; … - 2010

Reliance on self-rated health to proxy medical need can bias estimation of education-related inequity in health care utilisation. We correct this bias both by instrumenting self-rated health with objective health indicators and by purging self-rated health of reporting heterogeneity identified...

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Temporal, Spatial, Economic and Crime Factors in Illicit Drug Usage Across European Cities

Commandeur, Jacques Jean François; Vujic, Suncica; … - 2014

We analyze the illicit drug usage by inhabitants and visitors of European cities. Our statistical analyses are by means of linear mixed models. The data on illicit drug usage of cocaine, ecstasy, amphetamines, methamphetamines, and cannabis are collected through wastewater samples from the inlet...

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The Death of Distance Revisited : Cyberplace, Physical and Relational Proximities

Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - 2014

This paper studies the impact of physical distance and different relational proximity types on the formation of the Internet infrastructure. Although there is some anecdotal evidence on the 'end of geography' effect of the Internet, the relationship between physical space and the Internet has...

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Macroeconomic Crisis and Individual Firm Performance: The Mexican Experience

Watkins, Karen; van Dijk, Dick; Spronk, Jaap - 2004

This paper considers financial, operational, solvency, and performance ratios, in order to detect when there were balance sheets’ variations related to the 1994 Mexican currency crisis. Quarterly results for 88 non-financial Mexican companies that survived the crisis are used, and tests for...

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