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How successful are exchange rate communication and interventions? Evidence from time-series and event-study approaches

Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2005

The paper analyses whether communication and actual interventions in FX markets are successful in moving exchange rates over the medium- to long-run. It compares empirical evidence based on time-series analysis with that obtained from an eventstudy approach. Both the time-series approach based...

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Does social participation improve self-rated health in the older population? A quasi-experimental intervention study

Ichida, Yukinobu; Hirai, Hiroshi; Kondo, Katsunori; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 94 (2013) C, pp. 83-90

selectively participate in social activities). We describe a quasi-experimental intervention in one municipality of Japan designed … ‘salons’ (or community centers). In this quasi-experimental intervention study, we compared 158 participants with 1391 non …

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The Ties that Bind: Monetary Policy and Government Debt Management

Chadha, Jagjit S.; Turner, Philip; Zampolli, Fabrizio - School of Economics, University of Kent - 2013

The financial crisis and subsequent economic recession led to a rapid increase in the issuance of public debt. But large-scale purchases of bonds by the Federal Reserve, and other major central banks, have significantly reduced the scale and maturity of public debt that would otherwise have been...

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An Aggregate Model of Output, Inflation and Interest Rates for Industrialised Countries

Beenstock, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

We estimate an aggregate econometric model of the industrial economies using annual data drawn from the postwar period. The model includes equations for GDP, inflation, interest rates and non-oil commodity prices. GDP and inflation reflect the evolution of aggregate supply and demand while...

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The interest rate effects of government debt maturity

Chadha, Jagjit S; Turner, Philip; Zampolli, Fabrizio - Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - 2013

Federal Reserve purchases of bonds in recent years have meant that a smaller proportion of long-dated government debt has had to be held by other investors (private sector and foreign official institutions). But the US Treasury has been lengthening the maturity of its issuance at the same time....

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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 …

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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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