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Have you heard the news? How real-life expectations react to publicity
van der Wiel, Karen - 2009
biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to … affect how people picture the future. This paper studies the role of public information dissemination, or publicity, in a …
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Klimaanpassung: Handlungsfelder für die Raumentwicklung. Vertiefend diskutiert am Beispiel Hochwasserrisikomanagement
Greiving, Stefan; Birkmann, Jörn; Diehl, Joachim - In: Zukunft der Regionalplanung in Nordrhein-Westfalen, (pp. 67-75). 2013
innewohnende Unsicherheit, die Anpassungsflexibilität erforderlich macht. Ein möglicher Ansatz basiert auf dem No …
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Arithmetic is absolute: Euro-area adjustment
Wolff, Guntram B. - 2012
The European Central Bank's monetary policy addresses the euro-area average inflation rate. By setting conditions for the area as a whole it should ensure symmetric price adjustment. Indeed, consumer price inflation rates provide little evidence of asymmetric adjustment during 2009-11. Only...
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Monetary Transmission in the New Economy: Service Life of Capital, Transmission Channels and the Speed of Adjustment
von Kalckreuth, Ulf; Schröder, Jürgen - 2002
Anpassung auf den Gütermärkten. Mit abnehmender Kapitalnutzungsdauer wird der für die aggregierte Nachfrage relevante …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295733
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Sticky Information vs. Sticky Prices : A Horse Race in a DSGE Framework
Trabandt, Mathias - 2003
Mankiw and Reis (2002) have proposed sticky information as an alternative to Calvo sticky prices in order to model the … model with sticky information and compare it to Calvo sticky prices, allowing also for dynamic inflation indexation as in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296476
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Flexibility and Competition in Food Manufacturing Industries
Weiss, Christoph R. - 1999
This paper analyses the flexibility decision of firms. In particular we (a) ask whether the flexibility choice is influenced by market structure (concentration, market growth, ...), (b) compare the firms' actual choices with welfare maximising flexibility decisions (c) investigate the...
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Does fixed-term contract employment raise firms' adjustment-speed? Evidence from an establishment panel for West-Germany
Hagen, Tobias - 2001
Fixed-term labour contracts were liberalised in Germany in order to raise the flexibility of the labour market. However, empirical studies using industry-level data find no significant effect of FTCs on employment adjustment. This paper investigates the impact of FTC employment on firms?...
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Integration benefits on EU retail credit markets: evidence from interest rate pass-through
Heinemann, Friedrich; Schüler, Martin - 2002
Lending and borrowing interest rates are often slow to adjust to changing capital market conditions. This paper argues that national differences of the pass-through speed in the EU can be regarded as a retail-oriented indicator of financial integration. Based on an ECB database the speed of...
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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company
Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - 2008
type of external employment adjustment and on the other hand we use this information separating between quits, layoffs …
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Anpassung an den Klimawandel: Risiken und Chancen für deutsche Unternehmen
Ott, Hermann E.; Richter, Caspar - 2008
Anpassung an den Klimawandel beitragen können. Es gibt zunächst einen Überblick zur Problematik des Klimawandels und über die … voraussichtlichen Schäden bzw. die Kosten der Anpassung. Die Autoren beschreiben sodann die Auswirkungen auf klimasensible … Wirtschaftsbereiche und skizzieren schließlich die Chancen, die sich für die Unternehmen aus der zukünftig notwendigen Anpassung in vielen …
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