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Sticky information Phillips curves: European evidence

Döpke, Jörg; Dovern, Jonas; Fritsche, Ulrich; … - 2008

We estimate the sticky information Phillips curve model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) using survey expectations of professional forecasters from four major European economies. Our estimates imply that inflation expectations in France, Germany and the United Kingdom are updated about once a year, in...

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The impact of financial position on investment: an anlysis for non-financial corporations in the euro area

Martinez-Carrascal, Carmen; Ferrando, Annalisa - 2008

This paper analyses the impact that firms financial position has on investment decisions using panel data from a large sample of non-financial corporations(around 120,000 firms) in six euro area countries(Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain). The results indicate that...

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Relative house price dynamics across euro area and US cities: convergence or divergence?

Hiebert, Paul; Roma, Moreno - 2010

This paper examines the time varying dispersion in city house price levels across the four biggest euro area countries compared with those in the United States. Using available city-level data over the period 1987-2008, it tests for price convergence and analyses key factors explaining price...

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Towards expenditure rules and fiscal sanity in the euro area

Hauptmeier, Sebastian; Sanchez Fuentes, Jesus; … - 2010

The study looks at primary expenditure developments in the euro area, its three largest members and four “macro-imbalances” countries for the period 1999-2009. It compares actual expenditure trends with those that would have prevailed if countries had followed neutral policies based on...

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Umsatzrenditen, empirische Bestandsaufnahme und ökonometrische Ursachenanalyse für sechs Industrieländer

Lichtblau, Karl; Schäfer, Holger; Stolte, Iris - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 29 (2002) 2, pp. 37-45

Im Jahr 2000 erwirtschafteten deutsche Unternehmen Gewinne, die nach Steuern 2,4 Prozent ihres Umsatzes erreichten. Damit lagen sie in einem 18-Länder-Vergleich an viertschlechtester Stelle. Geringere Nettoumsatzrenditen gab es nur noch in Tschechien, Italien und Polen. Eine tiefer gehende...

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Deutsch-französische Wirtschaftsperformance im Vergleich

Matthes, Jürgen - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 30 (2003) 1, pp. 13-23

Frankreich lediglich in den Jahren 1998 und 1999 im Gegensatz zu Deutschland einen sehr kräftigen, aber bald darauf wieder … Vergleich zu Deutschland ausgeprägte Lohnzurückhaltung Frankreichs in den Vorjahren zurückzuführen ist. Zudem haben … reguliert ist als der deutsche. Die Wachstumsbedingungen sind insgesamt gesehen in Frankreich nicht besser als in Deutschland. …

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Yet the Poorest, Relatively Speaking: Italian Poverty Rates in International Perspective

Orsini, Kristian R. D. - 2001

Few works more than Esping-Andersen's 'Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism' have drawn researchers' attention on institutional features that characterize the diverse typologies of welfare regimes; yet the impact of the different institutional settings on income distribution has mostly been taken...

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Trends of Poverty and Income Inequality in Cross-National Comparison

Ritakallio, Veli-Matti - 2001

Comparative research of poverty, income inequality and the effectiveness of income transfer systems has flourished during the last two decades, largely owing to the contribution of the Luxembourg Income Study project. So far, however, the majority of comparative analyses have been based on a...

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Regional Economic Distress and Political Participation in National and European Parliamentary Elections in Western Europe

Jesuit, David K. - 2002

This paper examines the relationship between regional or 'contextual' poverty, income inequality and unemployment and individual political participation in the mid-1990s for the following Western European countries: Belgium, France, West Germany, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. This...

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Regional Poverty within the Rich Countries

Jesuit, David; Rainwater, Lee; Smeeding, Timothy - 2002

Using regional incomes as the reference group, disposable income poverty rates are computed for the two most recent waves of Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data available for the following countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In...

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