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Intra-household time allocation: gender differences in caring for children
Garcia, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; Montuenga, … - 2009
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France,...
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Testing for Parameter Stability in DSGE Models. The Cases of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain
Jerger, Jürgen; Röhe, Oke - 2012
We estimate a New Keynesian DSGE model on French, German, Italian, and Spanish data. The main aim of this paper is to check for the respective sets of parameters that are stable over time, making use of the ESS procedure ('Estimate of Set of Stable parameters') developed by Inoue and Rossi...
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Firm Investment and Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Hernando, Ignacio; Generale, Andrea; … - 2001
einzelwirtschaftlichen Investitionsverhaltens in den vier größten Ländern des Euro-Währungsraums (Deutschland, Frankreich, Italien und … Spanien). Bei unserer Untersuchung des Zinskanals und des Kreditkanals können wir auf ausgesprochen reiche Datensätze mit …
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Heterogeneous expectations, learning and European inflation dynamics
Weber, Anke - 2007
This paper is the first attempt to investigate the performance of different learning rules in fitting survey data of household and expert inflation expectations in five core European economies (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands and Spain). Overall it is found that constant gain learning...
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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU
Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003
We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom), focusing on self-selection into market work. Results show that selectivity correction has an impact on both wage estimates and wage gap decomposition. If...
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Exchange rate pass-through to consumer prices: a European perspective
Schröder, Michael; Hüfner, Felix P. - 2002
We study the pass-through of exchange rate changes to consumer prices for the euro area by estimating vector error correction models for Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. Using the weights of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) we compute a weighted average of the...
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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data From Four European Countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
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Efficiency and profitability of European banks: how important is operational efficiency?
Werner, Karl; Moormann, Jürgen - 2009
Most previous research on efficiency in banking takes a regulatory perspective. In contrast, this paper investigates the empirical relation between efficiency and profitability in five large economies of the European Union during the period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the...
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Weltweite konjunkturelle Auswirkungen von Immobilienkrisen
Jannsen, Nils - 2008
Vereinigten Staaten, Großbritannien, Spanien und Frankreich gemeinsam auftretenden Immobilienkrisen untersucht. In einem solchem … Großbritannien und Spanien sprechen bereits viele Anzeichen dafür, dass eine solche Krise bereits ausgebrochen ist, aber auch … Frankreich könnte - neben einer Reihe von kleineren Ländern - betroffen sein. Immobilienkrisen haben in der Vergangenheit häufig …
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Ehrbarer Staat? Die Generationenbilanz - Update 2008: Migration und Nachhaltigkeit
Hagist, Christian; Moog, Stefan; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2008
Um die fiskalische Nachhaltigkeit der Politik bzw. einzelner Reformmaßnahmen zu messen, hat die Wirtschaftswissenschaft in den letzten Jahren mehrere Instrumente eingeführt. Hierzu zählt auch die Generationenbilanz, die Anfang der 1990er-Jahre in den USA entwickelt wurde. Der vorliegende...
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