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Elections and political risk: New evidence from the 2008 Taiwanese Presidential Election
Imai, Masami; Shelton, Cameron A. - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 7, pp. 837-849
political prediction market in Taiwan, a country with two dominant parties whose political cleavage derives mainly from a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056182
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An Empirical Study of Taiwan's 1978-2006 Financial Development, Export, Saving and Economic Growth
Wang, Vey; Yun, Hai-Chun; Lee, Lung-Sheng - In: The African Finance Journal 14 (2012) 1, pp. 87-101
Since 1978, Taiwan has implemented a series of financial liberalization-related policies, including exchange rate …
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Indonesian Stock Market Crisis Observation with Spectral and Composite Index
Situngkir, Hokky - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The paper discusses the employment of the index composed from the dynamical tree of correlations among stock prices both with the popularly used standard (conventional) composite one. The spectral index focus on the dynamics of the correlation coefficients among stock prices while composite...
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Report on the financial system in Portugal
Lagoa, Sérgio; Leão, Emanuel; Mamede, Ricardo Paes; … - Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741342
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Reflections
Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997
This paper examines the causes of Taiwan's exceptional economic performance, focusing on the influence of … organizational and policy choices and how Taiwan's example differs from those of more typical less-developed countries. After briefly … success. The author demonstrates how Taiwan's unique combination of strong organic nationalism, meager natural resources and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357744
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Reflections
Ranis, G. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997
This paper examines the causes of Taiwan's exceptional economic performance, focusing on the influence of … organizational and policy choices and how Taiwan's example differs from those of more typical less-developed countries. After briefly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005647057
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The Partisan Effects of Voter Turnout: How Conservatives Profit from Rainy Election Days
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
In this short note, we use data from different elections in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia between 1975 and 2010 to show that the social democrats generally profit from higher voter turnout at the expense of the conservatives. We deal with the endogeneity of voter turnout by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212799
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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703211
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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic indicators caused by clearly exogenous changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124061
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Does cabinet ideology matter for the structure of tax policies?
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; Kammas, … - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 4, pp. 620-635
This paper investigates the importance of political ideology for the choice of the tax structure. In particular, we examine the effects of cabinet ideology on the distribution of the tax burden across factors of production and consumption for 16 OECD countries over the period 1970–2000 by...
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