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Using a comprehensive high-frequency foreign exchange dataset, we present evidence of time-of-day effects in foreign exchange returns through a significant tendency for currencies to depreciate during local trading hours. We confirm this pattern across a range of currencies and time zones. We...
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We empirically investigate why wholesale funding is fragile by providing the first study of how individual banks borrow and lend in the euro unsecured and secured interbank market. Consistent with theories in which lenders enforce market discipline by monitoring counterparty credit risk and...
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Die Kurzexpertise kritisiert das Gutachten der Wirtschaftsverbände „Ökonomische Bildung an allgemein bildenden Schulen“ (2010) als unter fachwissenschaftlichen, fachdidaktischen, pädagogischen und pragmatischen Aspekten unzureichend. Sie verlangt, ökonomische Fragen in gesellschaftliche,...
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Seit 2014 liegt die EEG-Umlage bei über 6 ct/kWh und macht einen erheblichen Teil der deutschen Verbraucherstrompreise aus. Um die Förderkosten nicht weiter steigen zu lassen, werden seit 2017 die Fördersätze für Windenergie wettbewerblich ausgeschrieben. Dadurch war in den ersten...
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Der Energiesektor hat im vergangenen Jahr erneut seine Klimaziele erreicht. Beim CO2-Abdruck der Stromversorgung liegt Deutschland innerhalb Europas allerdings noch zurück. Zuträglich ist dem Klimaschutz, dass Deutschland im letzten Jahr zum Netto-Stromimporteur geworden ist.
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To the surprise of many market watchers, Thailand's exchange-rate peg to the dollar collapsed in July 1997, leading to similar rounds of currency devaluations in other East Asian countries. This study seeks to determine if there were identifiable contrasts in implementation between Thailand's...
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In this article, we demonstrate that a small degree of stochastic variation in the depreciation rate of capital can greatly reduce the comovement between hours worked and labor productivity in a neoclassical growth model. The depreciation rate is modeled as a Markov process to place a strict...
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Reuters news reports have become an accepted tool for empirical studies analyzing informational asymmetries in FX markets. This paper tests the accuracy of the Reuters reports for Swiss interventions in the foreign exchange market. The evidence finds that the time stamp of the Reuters reports...
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This note sheds new light on the dynamic properties of maintenance and repair and examines the behavior of an additional form of capital spending - that of improvements. The analysis examines a unique long-run data set on Swiss road spending.
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