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This paper analyses the degree of inflation persistence in the EU15, the euro area and each of its member states using disaggregate price indices from the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices. Our results reveal substantial heterogeneity across countries and indices. The overall results, based on...
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This evaluation aims to assess the extent to which the European Commission’s (EC) assistance has been relevant …, efficient, effective and sustainable in producing the expected impacts in the education sector. Moreover, the evaluation also … Governments’ priorities and activities, and with international legal commitments in education. The evaluation covers basic and …
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The overall purpose of this evaluation is to ensure accountability for the use of allocated resources as well as to … promote a lesson-learning culture in EC development cooperation. The main specific objectives of the evaluation were: •to …
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This Joint Country Evaluation of the development cooperation of Denmark, Sweden and the European Union with Bangladesh … strategy and delivery of the Evaluation Partners in Bangladesh, and secondly informing future decision-making through lessons … learnt. The main focus of the evaluation is the development cooperation extended during the 2007-2013 period, including both …
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This paper provides evidence on whether the creation of the euro has changed the way global turbulences a¤ect euro area and other economies. Specifically, it considers the impact of global shocks on the competitiveness of individual euro area countries and assesses whether their responses to...
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We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub-indicators, for 23 industrialised countries. The first four sub-indicators are u0093opportunityu0094 indicators that take into account administrative, education and health outcomes...
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Heterogeneity in the response of banks to a change in monetary policy is an important element in the transmission of this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal factors influencing banks’ reaction in terms of lending...
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In this paper we compare the in-sample fit and out-of-sample forecasting performance of no-arbitrage quadratic and essentially affine term structure models, as well as the dynamic Nelson-Siegel model. In total eleven model variants are evaluated, comprising five quadratic, four affine and two...
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In a cross section of OECD countries we replace the macroeconomic production function by a production possibility frontier, TFP being the composite effect of efficiency scores and possibility frontier changes. We consider, for the periods 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, one output: GDP per worker; three...
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