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Growth expectations, capital flows and international risk sharing

Castrén, Olli; Miller, Marcus; Stiegert, Roger - 2003

Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...

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Cooperation in international banking supervision

Holthausen, Cornelia; Rønde, Thomas - 2004

This paper analyzes cooperation between sovereign national authorities in the supervision and regulation of a multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own country. The communication between the supervisors is...

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Wage setting and wage flexibility in Ireland

Keeney, Mary; Lawless, Martina - 2010

This paper investigates the wage-setting behaviour of Irish firms. We place particular emphasis on the use of flexible pay components and examine how these allow firms to deal with shocks requiring a reduction in costs without having to cut base wages. The results presented in this paper are...

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Growth strategies and value creation

Hasan, Iftekhar; Schmiedel, Heiko; Song, Liang - 2010

and investigate their short-run share price responses to the formation of 110 M&As and alliances all over the world …

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Trade advantages and specialisation dynamics in acceding countries

Zaghini, Andrea - 2003

The paper analyses the evolution of the trade specialisation pattern in the ten countries which will join the EU in … improvements in items for which the world demand expanded at the fastest rate over the Nineties; in particular, Estonia, Hungary …

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Import prices and pricing-to-market effects in the euro area

Warmedinger, Thomas - 2004

Pricing-to-market (PTM) behaviour implies that exporters adjust their prices to the prevailing prices in their export markets. For the importing country, PTM effects can be interpreted as a measure of the stability of domestic prices against foreign price and exchange rate developments. PTM...

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Trade with central and eastern Europe

Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010

This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing … intra and inter-industry trade as well as between trade from western and eastern Europe and we try to assess the relative … importance of foreign wages versus domestic productivity developments in an open environment. We find that trade is not an …

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estimating cross country differences in product quality using Eurostat's COMEXT trade database

Pula, Gabor; Santabárbara, Daniel - 2011

advanced world, its export unit values are well below the level of developed economies. Building on the assumption that unit …

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Why has broad money demand been more stable in the euro area than in other economies?

Calza, Alessandro; Sousa, João - 2003

Based on a literature review, this paper investigates the reasons why broad money demand has usually been found to be more stable in the euro area than in other large economies. The paper concludes that there are three main explanations for this fact. First, in some countries outside the euro...

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L'indemnisation des citoyens et des residents permanents europeens victimes de la criminalite ou du terrorisme en dehors du territoire de l'union europeenne

Lex fori ; International Network of Lawyers - 2005

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