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Re-Examining Investor Protection in Europe and the US
Burke, John J. A. - 2009
The year 2009 is a propitious time to evaluate systems of investor protection in financial markets as global bank losses exceed the 1 trillion mark and market losses equally exceed the 1 trillion mark. Prior to the Global Financial Crisis, the European Union enacted sweeping legislation to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157246
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U.S. Public Pension Funds and Risk Seeking Behavior of Money Managers : The Path to Alternative Investments
Choudhary, Amod - 2017
State Public Pension funds have increased their portfolios into riskier alternative investments to meet their annual required contributions (ARC). Our paper uses The Public Plans Data (PPD) to analyze the differences in alternative investments for 2001 to 2013 by Democrats and Republican...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948967
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Minsky and economic policy :"Keynesianismʺ all over again?
Tymoigne, Éric (contributor) - 2008
Recently, national newspapers all over the world have suggested that we should reread John Maynard Keynes, and that Hyman P. Minsky provides a valuable framework for understanding the world in which we live. While rereading Keynes and discovering Minsky are noble goals, one should also remember...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003773518
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Biden versus Trump : Positionen in der Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Klimapolitik
Bardt, Hubertus; Kolev-Schaefer, Galina - 2020
Die amerikanischen Wahlen im November 2020 werden nicht nur für die USA selbst, sondern auch für Europa und Deutschland von hoher Bedeutung sein. Während die transatlantische Kooperation unter der aktuellen Administration gelitten hat, besteht mit einem Regierungswechsel die Chance auf einen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261392
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Government Ideology and Economic Policy-Making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies using data for the national, state and local level and elaborate on checks and balances, especially divided government, measurement of government ideology and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955414
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Political Economy of the US Financial Crisis 2007-2009
Vukovic, Vuk - 2012
The emphasis of this paper is on the political economy of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States and how the policy makers contributed to it through their legislation and regulations, made under the rising influence of interest groups and the lobbying activities of the finance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111788
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Economic policy uncertainty, trust and inflation expectations
Istrefi, Klodiana; Piloiu-Popescu, Anamaria-Valeria - 2013 - Second Draft: February 2013
Theory and evidence suggest that in an environment of well-anchored expectations, temporary news or shocks to economic variables, should not affect agents ́expectations of inflation in the long term. Our estimated structural VARs show that both long- and short-term inflation expectations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764421
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Growing up in a recession : beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884097
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Government ideology and economic policy-making in the United States
Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
This paper describes the role of government ideology on economic policy-making in the United States. I consider studies using data for the national, state and local level and elaborate on checks and balances, especially divided government, measurement of government ideology and empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646733
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The impact of the euro on equity markets: a country and sector decomposition
Cappiello, Lorenzo; Kadareja, Arjan; Manganelli, Simone - 2008
This paper investigates whether comovements between euro area equity returns at national and industry level have … changed after the introduction of the euro. By adopting a regression quantile-based methodology, we find that after 1999 the … degree of comovements among euro area national equity markets has augmented. By explicitly controlling for the impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604952