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Finance and growth in the EU
De Ávila, Diego Romero - 2003
This paper analyses the link between finance and growth by studying the effect that the process of financial deregulation and harmonisation of banking laws at the EU level has brought about on growth over the last 40 years. Our main findings point to the existence of a positive long-run growth...
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Country and sector-specific spillover effects in the euro area, the United States and Japan
Kaltenhaeuser, Bernd - 2003
Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects originating from one of the three currency areas and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635881
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International equity flows and returns
Albuquerque, Rui; Bauer, Gregory H.; Schneider, Martin - 2004
This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
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The high-yield segment of the corporate bond market
Bondt, Gabe de; Marqués, David - 2004
This study empirically examines the development of the high-yield segment of the corporate bond market in the United … found to be higher in Europe than in the United States as also macroeconomic factors are considered. The high-yield bond … on speculative-grade and BBB-rated investment-grade bonds. These findings suggest that the diffusion of new financial …
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Zero lower bound
Coenen, Günter - 2003
This paper presents the results of a quantitative study of the implications of the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates which was undertaken in the context of the review of the ECBu0092s monetary policy strategy in Spring 2003. Focusing on the euro area, the paper provides an assessment of...
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Bond market inflation expectations and longer-term trends in broad monetary growth and inflation in industrial countries, 1880 - 2001
Dewald, William G. - 2003
u0093Bond Market Inflation Expectation and Longer-term Trends in Broad Monetary Growth and Inflation in Industrial …-country averages. Inflationary expectations as estimated by bond rates less real growth trends indicated little inflation expectation …
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Resources, scarcity, growth and the environment
Ayres, Robert U. - 2001
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What makes regions in Eastern Europe catching up?
Tondl, Gabriele; Vuksic, Goran - 2003
This paper analyses regional growth in eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. It aims to identify the factors behind growth and to investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
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