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Central Bank Intervention and Exchange Rate Expectations: Evidence from the Daily DM/US-Dollar Exchange Rate
Reitz, Stefan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002
bank intervention on exchange rates. Within a heterogeneous expectations exchange rate model intervention operations are … to daily US-dollar/DEM forward rates and intervention data of the Deutsche Bundesbank and the Federal Reserve from 1979 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059033
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NAFTA (nordamerikanische Freihandelszone) ist zustandegekommen
Brand, Diana - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 01 (1994) 01, pp. 19-20
Im August 1992 einigten sich die USA, Kanada und Mexiko über die Schaffung der nordamerikanischen Freihandelszone. Der … der Investitions- und Arbeitsbedingungen sowie Umweltschutzmaßnahmen. Da der Freihandelsvertrag die vom GATT festgelegten …
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Economic voting and economic revolutionizing? The economics of incumbency changes in European democracies and revolutionary events in the Arab World
Möller, Marie - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Westfälische … - 2011
While people in democracies can vote their government out when they are discontent with its policies, those in dictatorships cannot do so. They can only attempt to expel the dictator via mass protests or revolutions. Based on a general cause-and-effect mechanism, the author analyzes whether such...
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A model to evaluate and to optimize the spatial impact of the investments in urban regeneration
Cervelló Royo, Cervelló Royo , Roberto; García del … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 125-138
intervention locations, an impact index is put forward. The spatial distribution of these impact indexes in the interventions’ area … situations, a measure of the intervention process and its impact can be obtained. …
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Truth-telling and trust in sender–receiver games with intervention: an experimental study
Gurdal, Mehmet; Ozdogan, Ayca; Saglam, Ismail - In: Review of Economic Design 18 (2014) 2, pp. 83-103
robust to the random intervention of a truthful regulator. In addition, intervention significantly increases the excessive … intervention. We offer a theoretical explanation for the behavior of senders and receivers, using a logit agent quantal response … of this model. Moreover, we find that the lying cost is significantly higher under intervention, implying that truthful …
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Results of a Study to Increase Savoring the Moment: Differential Impact on Positive and Negative Outcomes
Hurley, Daniel; Kwon, Paul - In: Journal of Happiness Studies 13 (2012) 4, pp. 579-588
. This study tested a group savoring the moment intervention to increase positive outcomes and decrease negative outcomes … over 2 weeks. The sample consisted of 193 undergraduate students who completed both sessions (94 intervention and 99 … control condition). The intervention group experienced significant decreases in self-reported depressive symptoms and negative …
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Ageing, Leisure, and Social Connectedness: How could Leisure Help Reduce Social Isolation of Older People?
Toepoel, Vera - In: Social Indicators Research 113 (2013) 1, pp. 355-372
This study investigates the relation between leisure activities and the social status of the elderly based on a heterogeneous sample of the Dutch population. Close relationships are also analyzed to identify which people could serve as successful stimulators of leisure participation. The social...
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Causal effects of mathematics
Falch, Torberg; Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strom, Bjarne - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2013
This paper exploits that students at age 16 in Norway are randomly selected into one compulsory exit exam in either mathematics or languages. A few days before the actual exam day, the students are notified about exam subject. The students have an intensive preparation period, and preparation in...
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Effects of a school readiness intervention for children in foster care on oppositional and aggressive behaviors in kindergarten
Pears, Katherine C.; Kim, Hyoun K.; Fisher, Philip A. - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 12, pp. 2361-2366
intervention, the Kids In Transition to School (KITS) Program, designed to increase literacy, social, and self-regulation skills in … children before kindergarten entry. One hundred two children were randomly assigned to the KITS intervention and 90 were … had received the intervention had significantly lower levels of oppositional and aggressive behaviors in the classroom …
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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences
Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991
theory and the traditional analysis of export policy. The source of the trade divergence, the motive for intervention and the … shifting? or on a ?terms of trade improvement? as a motive for trade intervention are misleading. …
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