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The long-run effects of the 1930s HOLC "redlining" maps on place-based measures of economic opportunity and socioeconomic success

Aaronson, Daniel; Faber, Jacob; Hartley, Daniel; … - 2020

We estimate the long-run effects of the 1930s Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps on census tract-level measures of socioeconomic status and economic opportunity from the Opportunity Atlas (Chetty et al. 2018). We use two identification strategies to identify the long-run effects...

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Growing together: Croatia and Latvia

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010

We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …

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A new method for combining detrending techniques with application to business cycle sychchronization of the new EU members

Darvas, Zsolt; Vadas, Gábor - 2005

Decomposing output into trend and cyclical components is an uncertain exercise and depends on the method applied. It is an especially dubious task for countries undergoing large structural changes, such as transition countries. Despite their deficiencies, however, univariate detrending methods...

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Capital Mobility and EU Enlargement

Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

The EU has recently entered accession talks with five transition economies of eastern Europe. Membership in the EU would require inter alia the full liberalization of capital flows. This paper provides empirical evidence on the openness towards foreign capital that the accession states have...

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Alternative Paths Towards EMU: Lessons from an Expanded Mundell-Fleming Model for the Accession Countries

Vinhas de Souza, Lúcio; Ledrut, Elisabeth - 2002

A small expectations-expanded "Mundell-Fleming" model is built for the European Union Accession Countries and estimated to assess the optimality of different exchange rate regimes (a peg and a float) through a simple welfare function. Floating appears as the best option for most of the countries...

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU-Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process,known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor.Therefore,the paper aims at providing a quantitative...

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - An Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2003

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261627

Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

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Modelling Inflation in EU Accession Countries : The Case of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Golinelli, Roberto; Orsi, Renzo - 2002

Inflation in Central and East European countries varied considerably over the transition phase, and econometric relationships between prices, money, wages and exchange rates are said to have been unstable during this period. In order to shed some light on the issue, this paper analyses some...

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