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This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty on the investment behaviour using firm-level data for a sample of Belgian manufacturing firms. In general, the results confirm former analysis at the aggregate level, stating that uncertainty does matter but that the sign of the effect and its...
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In this paper we investigate how demand and output price uncertainty affect investment plans of Belgian manufacturing firms. We obtain time-varying uncertainty measures at the firm and industry level from the Belgian monthly business cycle survey and investment plans from the half-yearly...
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Intra-household inequality explains up to 50 percent of the cross-sectional variation in child human capital in the developing world. I study the role played by parents' educational investment to explain this inequality and its determinants. To mitigate the identification problem posed by...
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The impact of organized crime on inter-regional price disparities in Russia is estimated for each year from 1992 to …
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Russia; and its integration has been just the same as that one in the countries of developed market economy. …
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change (Rio declaration 1992) will take place. This meeting is crucial as it depends only on russia´s ratification to get the … russia´s position in these negotiations up to now. It will be discussed, why russia shall comply with the protocoll for ist … used for making the point, that it is in russia´s interest to enable the protocoll´s functioning: only by compliance russia …
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exchange-traded and over-the-counter-traded derivatives in Russia show that the Russian derivatives markets experienced …-traded derivatives in Russia rose from 2000 to 2006 on average 168 percent per year and reached a total turnover of EUR 102 billion in … Russia. Turnover of exchange-traded derivatives on interest rates, bonds or even commodities represent only a very small …
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of Russian agriculture. Despite these expectations, family farming is still a small sector in Russia, while agriculture …
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In August 1998 the Russian foreign exchange market and financial system collapsed. As a consequence the rouble devaluated in real terms against the currencies of the main trade partners, generating an output push in the agri-food sector. This improved the financial health of most producer, thus...
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