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Economic integration and the foreign exchange
Weber, Enzo - 2007
-round integration of two economies. Empirically, such a constellation is found between Australia and New Zealand, whereas diverging … trends in money and interest rates characterise the relation of Australia towards the US. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263691
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Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? Some new evidence from structural estimation
Dong, Wei - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of exchange rate movements on the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada … exchange rate process are examined. The results indicate that the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Bank of Canada and the Bank of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279936
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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033
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A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms
Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2000
Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332348
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Finanzsystem und Komplementarität
Hackethal, Andreas; Schmidt, Reinhard H. - 2000
die Finanzsysteme Deutschlands, Japans und der USA - gezeigt, inwieweit die Elemente der betreffenden Teilsysteme …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316263
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International comparisons of income distribution
Bazen, Stephen; Moyes, Patrick - 2003
When incorporating differences in household characteristics, the choice of equivalence scale can affect the ranking of income distributions. An alternative approach was pioneered by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (G.R. Feiwel (Ed.), Arrow and the Foundation of the Theory of Economic Policy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335395
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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - 2000
accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … vergleicht die gesetzlich festgelegte Rechenschaftspflicht der EZB mit der einiger anderer Zentralbanken (Bank of Canada, Bank of … Japan, Bank of England und Federal Reserve System). Im zweiten Teil stellen wir eine Theorie über die Rechenschaftspflicht …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295694
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? : Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
Woessmann, Ludger - 2004
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262033
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Supply side climate policy and the green paradox
Hoel, Michael - 2013
The focus of the green paradox literature has been either on demand-side climate policies or on effects of technological changes. The present paper addresses the question of whether there also might be some kind of green paradox related to supply-side policies, i.e. policies that permanently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330266
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E3 Impacts of Domestic Emissions Trading Regimes in Liberalised Energy Markets. Carbon Leakage or Double Dividend?
Kletzan, Daniela; Köppl, Angela; Kratena, Kurt - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435100