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The Labour Market and the Job Miracle
Heckman, James J.; Agell, Jonas; Gertser, Florian; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 29-48
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Growth Effects of Fiscal Policies - A Comparative Analysis in a Multi-Country Context
Brons, Martijn; de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1999
The potential interactions among fiscal policies, investments and economicgrowth are complex and manifold.In this paper, we will perform a systematic comparative analysis of the variouseconomic insights that arecurrently available on these complex relationships, both theoretically (by aselective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324618
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Value-at-Risk and Extreme Returns
Daníelsson, Jón; de Vries, Casper G. - 1998
Accurate prediction of the frequency of extreme events is of primary importance in many financialapplications such as Value-at-Risk (VaR) analysis. We propose a semi-parametric method for VaRevaluation. The largest risks are modelled parametrically, while smaller risks are captured by the...
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264578
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269064
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: Theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281823
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending: Theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285795
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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294540
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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality
Dreher, Axel - 2002
The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295488
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Why it pays for aid recipients to take note of the millennium challenge corporation: Other donors do!
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010
It is widely believed that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has grossly fallen short of high expectations raised by the Bush administration in 2002. From the perspective of potential recipient countries, the crucial issue is whether the MCC increased the overall pool of aid resources...
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