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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...

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Cycles inside cycles : Spanish regional aggregation

Gadea, Maria Dolores; Gómez-Loscos, Ana; Montañés, … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 4, pp. 423-456

This paper sets out a comprehensive framework to identify regional business cycles within Spain and analyses their stylised features and the degree of synchronisation both within them and between them and the Spanish economy. We show that the regional cycles are quite heterogeneous although they...

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Hedging Italian equity mutual fund returns during the recent financial turmoil : a duration-dependent Markov-switching approach

Zagaglia, Paolo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 325-337

We study optimal hedging design for returns on an Italian equity mutual fund index since 2008. Alternative hedging instruments include one-month futures contracts for FTSE-MIB, FTSE100 and Xetra DAX. We use bivariate models of our Italian equity mutual fund index and each hedging instrument to...

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Comparing labour and total factor productivity growth and level in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States over the past century and in recent years

Cette, Gilbert; Kocoglu, Yusuf; Mairesse, Jacques - In: The open economics journal 2 (2009), pp. 45-60

The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since 1980). During the past century, the United States has...

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Empirical analysis of employment and foreign direct investment in Malaysia : an ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration

Pinn, Stan Lee Shun; Ching, Kok Sook; Kogid, Mori; … - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 77-91

This study examines the relationships between the employment and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Malaysia. The …

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Within the context of changing role of the state assessment of incentive policies applied after 1980 in Turkey

Engin, Fevzi - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 6, pp. 175-189

future. -- investment incentive ; tax incentives ; financial incentives ; priority regions for development ; SMEs (small and …

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Performance comparison between Dollar Cost Averaging and Value Averaging Investment Strategies and the impacts of investment horizon and target terminal wealth

Panyagometh, Kamphol - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 15-27

analyzing the impacts of investment horizon and target terminal wealth on the performance of the Dollar Cost Averaging (DCA …) investment strategy in comparison with the Value Averaging (VA) investment strategy. According to the findings, with increased … length of investment horizon and/or lowered target terminal wealth, the Value Averaging (VA) investment strategy will have …

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Wege zu einem höheren Wachstumspfad

Bach, Stefan; Baldi, Guido; Bernoth, Kerstin; Bremer, Björn - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 26, pp. 6-17

investment rate has been falling for a long time and is still low by international standards. The calculations in this study … indicate that Germany has shown an annual investment gap of three percent on average since 1999. This means that Germany needs … average investment gap of around 75 billion euros each year. Calculations by DIW Berlin for the purposes of this study …

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Real option valuation in investment projects

Taş, Oktay; Ersen, Hüseyin Yiğit - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 5, pp. 177-188

Several new models are used to eliminate lack of classic methods in valuation of investment decisions. Finding an … answer for the question “which method is used to value investment” is important for investor to decide right investment … investment project. Furthermore, AHP method is utilized to determine elements that are used in project valuation process. Whereas …

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Responsiveness of trade flows to changes in exchange rate and relative prices : evidence from Nigeria

Oyinlola, M. Abimbola; Adeniyi, Oluwatosin; Omisakin, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 123-141

This paper examines the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate and price changes on trade flows in Nigeria using exports and imports functions. The bounds testing (ARDL) approach to cointegration is applied on a quarterly data from 1980 Q1 to 2007 Q4. The results indicate that in both...

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