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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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A new world post COVID-19 : lessons for business, the finance industry and policy makers
Billio, Monica (ed.); Varotto, Simone (ed.) - 2020 - 1st edition
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307709
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A lost game of bank gargains : West Germany and international banking regulation between Bretton Woods and Basel I (1972-1988)
Kemmerer, Matthias - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 64 (2023) 2, pp. 339-375
Current theories of financial regulation suggest expanding rules-based formal state intervention to promote …-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic (gentlemen's) agreements underpinned West German bank internationalisation … regulation, drawing on unused primary sources: Coalitions between the German regulating and regulated actors were bolstered by a …
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The Hunt for Duration : Not Waving but Drowning?
Domanski, Dietrich - 2017
Long-term interest rates in Europe fell sharply in 2014 to historically low levels. This development is often attributed to yield-chasing in anticipation of quantitative easing by the European Central Bank. We examine how portfolio adjustments by long-term investors aimed at containing duration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962082
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The Hunt for Duration : Not Waving But Drowning?
Domanski, Dietrich - 2015
Long-term interest rates in Europe fell sharply in 2014 to historically low levels. This development is often attributed to yield-chasing in anticipation of quantitative easing (QE) by the European Central Bank (ECB). We examine how portfolio adjustments by long-term investors aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014073
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Portfoliooptimierung auf der Grundlage eines Marktneutralen Zweifaktormodells - eine theoretische Ableitung mit Beispielen - Theory of Optimizing Portfolios by Eliminating the Impa...
Scholtz, Hellmut D. - 2022
The approach shows the scientific background of eliminating the market risk of an optimized portfolio and the use of marginal probabilities of ruin for optimized amounts of investments.For this reason the mathematical expectations of the parameters of the market model in the portfolio result to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235784
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Nuclear Power, Nuclear Proliferation and the NPT
Sagan, Scott D. - 2010
Will the spread of nuclear power to new states lead to the spread of nuclear weapons? I argue that the answer will depend on which states get nuclear power, which states acquire sensitive nuclear facilities (uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing) and the rules that govern technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140905
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
Hills, Thomas - 2017
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969029
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The Origins of Modern Finance Ministries : An Evolutionary Account Based on the History of Britain and Germany
Krause, Philipp - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009380
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Evolution of Ownership and Control Around the World : The Changing Face of Capitalism
Franks, Julian R. - 2017
This chapter documents the evolution of ownership and control of firms around the world over a hundred year period from the beginning of the 20th century to today. It records the substantial changes that have taken place in the nature of stock markets and contrasts these with the persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954116