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Electoral externalities in federations : evidence from German opinion polls
Frei, Xenia; Langer, Sebastian; Lehmann, Robert; … - 2017 - This version: February 20, 2017
Party performance in state and federal elections is highly interdependent. Federal elections impact regional voting dynamics and vice versa (electoral externalities). We quantify the extent of simultaneous electoral externalities between two layers of government. We apply vector autoregressions...
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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The Impact of Market Regulations on Intra-European Real Exchange Rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087275
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The impact of market regulations on intra-European real exchange rates
Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2013
We study the contribution of market regulations in the dynamics of the real exchange rate within the European Union. Based on a model proposed by De Gregorio et al. (1994a), we show that both product market regulations in nontradable sectors and employment protection tend to inflate the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691682
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Labour market institutions and unemployment : an international comparison
Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2000. In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009514064
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Labour market institutions and unemployment : an international comparison
Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009411314
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Labour market institutions and unemployment : an international comparison
Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2000. In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271978
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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth - An International Comparison
Rottmann, Horst; Flaig, Gebhard - 2021
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316632
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Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth. An International Comparison
Flaig, Gebhard; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on labour market performance. We analyse as an indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316723
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Federalism's Values and the Value of Federalism
Inman, Robert P. - 2011
scholars and is there any evidence that would suggest all this attention is warranted? Proponents see federalism as a means to …, while policy decentralization is the key to federalism's strong rights and economic performance and can be achieved within a … provides federalism's valued outcomes. Third, federalism needs democracy; there is no evidence that adding policy …
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