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Giammarioli, Nicola - 2003

capable to generate business ßuctuations, driven by self-fulÞlling belief, characterised by unemployment persistence. A …

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Investors with too many options?

Dorn, Daniel - 2010

During the last decade, markets for covered warrants (bank-issued options) have flourished in Europe and Asia. In these markets, investors often face a choice between many instruments that differ only slightly from each other. Based on retail trades in call options on the German DAX index, this...

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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the euro area

Dieppe, Alistair; González Pandiella, Alberto; Hall, … - 2011

Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...

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Business cycle dynamics under rational inattention

Maćkowiak, Bartosz; Wiederholt, Mirko - 2011

We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with rational inattention by households and firms. Consumption responds slowly to interest rate changes because households decide to pay little attention to the real interest rate. Prices respond quickly to some shocks and slowly to other...

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Unemployment in Austria: low, but…

Sherwood. Monika - 2006

On the face of it, Austria’s labour market performs very well, which is reflected in one of the lowest unemployment … rates in the EU. However, while many of the euro area members have recently succeeded in reducing unemployment, the Austrian …. In addition the unemployment statistics are distorted by the relatively low labour force participation of older workers …

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Structural unemployment: a blot on the Finnish success story

Maiväli, Mart - 2006

feature of the Finnish economy compared with that of Sweden and Denmark is the higher level of unemployment. In the early 1990 … adapt. The spectacular recovery of the Finnish economy has pushed up labour demand. While unemployment has fallen back from …

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High unemployment in Poland - not only a labour market problem

Narożny, Michał - 2006

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Gender pay differences om the European Union: Do higher wages make up for discrimination?

Canton, Erik - 2009

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Foreign direct investment and international business cycle comovement

Jansen, W. Jos; Stokman, Ad C. J. - 2004

This paper investigates the relationship between bilateral FDI positions and cross-country business cycle correlations in the period 1982–2001. We find that countries that have comparatively intensive FDI relations also have more synchronized business cycles during 1995–2001. Before 1995, we...

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Human capital externalities and proximity evidence from repeated cross-sectional data

Canton, Erik - 2009

Does schooling generate social returns in excess of the private returns captured by the individual who makes the human capital investment? As a strategy to detect human capital externalities I use Dutch survey data to estimate the impact of the average human capital stock in a region on...

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