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We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...
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Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
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We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … relationship. We model the inter-temporal relationships among efficiency, capital and risk for a large sample of commercial banks … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements …
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frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods …
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The paper proposes a multi-factor international asset pricing model in which the exchange rate is allowed to be co-determined by a risk factor imperfectly correlated to other priced risks in the economy. The significance of this factor can be established as long as one is able to observe a proxy...
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Although the Visegrád Four countries often defended the same or similar positions in the European Convention, their views differed on many important issues. This situation is likely to be repeated at the upcoming Intergovernmental Conference. This basically confirms the tendency that can be...
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