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Do energy prices induce progress in energy-related technology? An empirical study
Schmitz, Simon - 2001
Research efforts towards new energy sources and towards the efficiency of energy use will be vital to reducing CO2 abatement costs in the long term. Can such efforts be induced by price instruments? Economists often cite induced technological change as a possible consequence of environmental...
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Dependencies between European stock markets when price changes are unusually large
Schich, Sebastian T. - 2002
grosser Kursschwankungen anhand von täglichen Daten der Aktienmarktindices für Deutschland, Großbitannien, Frankreich, die … Niederlande und Italien von 1973 bis 2001. Abhängigkeit wird dabei gemessen anhand der bedingten Wahrscheinlichkeit einer … unterschiedlich je nach betrachtetem Länderpaar. So stehen die Aktienmärkte in Frankreich und den Niederlanden in jeweils relativ …
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European inflation expectations dynamics
Slacalek, Jirka; Fritsche, Ulrich; Dovern, Jonas; … - 2005
This paper investigates the relevance of the sticky information model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) and Carroll (2003) for four major European economies (France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom). As opposed to the benchmark rational expectation models, households in the sticky information...
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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-Countries
Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...
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International spillovers and feedback: Modelling in a disequilibrium framework
Winker, Peter; Beck, Martin - 2000
German unifikation hit the West German economy in a prosperous and appeared as a huge demand shock at least for the first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany, which may have helped to cushion recessionary trends...
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International evidence on sticky consumption growth
Carroll, Christopher D.; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2008
We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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Firm Characteristics, Economic Conditions and Capital Structure Adjustment
Drobetz, Wolfgang; Pensa, Pascal; Wanzenried, Gabrielle - 2007
We use a dynamic framework and panel methodology to investigate the determinants of a firms' time-varying capital structure. Our sample comprises 706 European firms from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K. over the period from 1983 to 2002. If capital structure adjustment is costly, firms may...
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International evidence on sticky consumption growth.
Carroll, Christopher D.; Slacalek, Jiri; Sommer, Martin - 2008
We estimate the degree of ‘stickiness’ in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of auto-correlation, with a stickiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604932
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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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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2002
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