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What determines stock market behavior in Russia and other emerging countries?

Korhonen, Iikka; Peresetsky, Anatoly - 2013

We empirically test the dependence of the Russian stock market on the world stock market and world oil prices in the … well as two markets outside Europe (Turkey and South Africa). We apply a rolling regression to identify periods when oil … prices or stock indices in the US and Japan were important. Surprisingly, oil prices are not significant for the Russian …

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Global Accumulation and the New Middle East Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

The unravelling of the Middle-East peace process continues to baffle the pundits. The early optimism of the Oslo peace accord has now turned into despair. Prime minister Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist. The Palestinians have embarked on a new Intifada. And Israel has re-occupied...

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The Global Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2002

Over the past century, Israel has been transformed from an agricultural colony, to a welfare-warfare state, to a globally integrated “market economy” characterised by great income disparities. What lies behind this transformation? Why the shift in emphasis from “war profits” to “peace...

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The Impermanent War Economy? Peace Dividends and Capital Accumulation in Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Political Economy of Middle East Peace. The Impact …, (pp. 73-108). 1999

The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative analytical framework for understanding the long term transformation in Israel. First, we argue against the conventional separation between the “political system” and the “economic system.” This separationist approach has been popular...

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The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Global Political Economy of Israel, (pp. 198-273). 2002

A theoretical and historical account of the global political economy of oil, armament and capital accumulation in the …

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Russian equity market linkages before and after the 1998 crisis: evidence from time-varying and stochastic cointegration tests

Lucey, Brian M.; Voronkova, Svitlana - 2005

This paper examines the relationships between the Russian and other Central European (CE) and developed countries' equity markets over the 1995-2004 period.Along with the traditional Johansen and Juselius (1990) multivariate cointegration tests, we apply novel cointegration approaches, including...

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Corporate social responsibility and shareholder's value: An event study analysis

Becchetti, Leonardo; Ciciretti, Rocco; Hasan, Iftekhar - 2007

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly a core component of corporate strategy in the global economy. In recent years its importance has become even greater, primarily because of the financial scandals, investors’ losses, and reputational damage to listed companies. While...

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Return and Volatility Reactions to Monthly Announcements of Business Cycle Forecasts: An Event Study Based on High-Frequency Data

Steiner, Christian; Groß, Anne; Entorf, Horst - 2009

This article contributes to the literature on macroeconomic announcements and their impact on asset prices by investigating how the 15-second Xetra DAX returns reflect the monthly announcements of the two best known business cycle forecasts for Germany, i.e. the ifo Business Climate Index and...

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Why blu-ray vs. HD-DVD ist not VHS vs. Betamax: The co-evolution of standard-setting consortia

Christ, Julian P.; Slowak, André P. - 2009

Extensive research has been conducted on the economics of standards in the last three decades. To date, standard-setting studies emphasize a superior role of demand-side-driven technology diffusion; these contributions assume the evolution of a user-driven momentum and network externalities. We...

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Is cartelisation profitable? A case study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913

Lübbers, Thorsten - 2009

We examine the effect of one of the presumably most powerful cartels ever on the profitability of its members. More precisely, we consider the Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate, a coal cartel that operated in Imperial Germany in the late 19th and early 20th century, using a newly constructed...

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