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Risk sharing through financial markets with endogenous enforcement of trades

Köppl, Thorsten V. - 2004

When people share risk in financial markets, intermediaries provide costly enforcement for most trades and, hence, are an integral part of financial marketsu0092 organization. We assess the degree of risk sharing that can be achieved through financial markets when enforcement is based on the...

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Behavioural economics and taxation

Weber, Till Olaf - European Commission / Directorate General for Taxation …; … - 2014

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Tax compliance social norms and institutional quality : an evlolutionary theory of public good provision

Nicolaides, Panayiotis - 2014

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Wohnen, arbeiten und studieren in einem anderen Mitgliedstaat : ein Überblick über Ihre Rechte als EU-Bürger

European Commission/ Directorate-General for the … - 2005

Wussten Sie, dass Sie als EU-Bürger das Recht haben, in einem anderen EU-Land zu wohnen, zu arbeiten und zu studieren? Und wussten Sie auch, dass Jahr für Jahr Tausende von diesen Rechten Gebrauch machen? Sie zählen zu den grundlegenden Rechten, die Sie als Unionsbürger genießen. Mit dieser...

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Consumer inflation expectations in Poland

£yziak, Tomasz - 2003

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the transmission of monetary policy impulses and their impact on...

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Consumption, habit persistence, imperfect information and the lifetime budget constraint

Willman, Alpo - 2003

Based on the householdsu0092 utility maximisation, a closed form approximation of the consumption function is derived … and the deep parameters of the consumption function are estimated using aggregate euro area data. The novel element in our … lot of information on future income changes, but that also lagged consumption, through habit formation, plays an important …

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How much does the public know about the ECB's monetary policy?

Cruijsen, Carin van der; Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2010

Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a...

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Mortgage indebtedness and household financial distress

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Lojschova, Adriana; … - 2010

Using comparable survey data from twelve European countries from 1994 to 2001 we investigate households’ attitudes towards mortgage indebtedness. We find that a given debt burden creates much higher distress in countries with fewer mortgage holders relative to countries where a significant...

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Choosing and using payment instruments

Kalckreuth, Ulf von; Schmidt, Tobias; Stix, Helmut - 2009

Germans are still very fond of using cash. Of all direct payment transactions, cash accounts for an astounding 82% in terms of number, and for 58% in terms of value. With a new and unique dataset that combines transaction information with survey data on payment behaviour of German consumers, we...

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How effective are rewards programs in promoting payment card usage?

Carbó-Valverde, Santiago; Liñares-Zegarra, José M. - 2009

Card issuers have mainly relied on rewards programs as their main strategic driver to increase electronic payments. However, there is scarce evidence on the effectiveness of rewards programs. This paper offers novel evidence on two key issues: i) it measures the impact of rewards programs on the...

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