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Country v sector effects in equity returns and the roles of geographical and firm-size coverage
de Moor, Lieven L.; Sercu, Piet - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2010
Since Roll (The Journal of Finance 47(1):3-41, 1992) and Heston and Rouwenhorst (Journal of Financial Economics 36:3-27, 1994), there has been a debate whether country factors in international stock returns are typically more variable than sector factors. The addition of emerging markets (EMs)...
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World financial crisis and behaviour of short-term interest rates – international and domestic aspects
Đukić, Đorđe; Đukić, Mališa - Narodna Banka Srbije - 2009
The paper offers a general overview of the situation and examines the actual impact of foreign capital on the economy of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in general, and the Serbian economy in particular, during the entire interwar period. Special attention is paid to the methods in which banks in...
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Research ranking at world-wide and Turkish scale amongst economists and economics departments
Halicioglu, Ferda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This short note presents the research rankings of economists and economics departments at world-wide and Turkish scale …
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Determinants of economic growth in BRIC countries
Goel, Rajjev K. - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2011
We study economic growth in four emerging economies - Brazil, Russia, India, and China (BRIC). Questions addressed are: (a) How do medium term growth determinants differ from short term determinants? (b) What are differences between growth effects of aggregate versus disaggregated exports? And...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391448
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High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link
Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011
A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...
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The role of cognitive skills in economic development revisited
Breton, Theodore - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2012
Students´ test scores at ages 9 to 15 are a measure of their skills as workers five to 55 years later. Using historic data on test scores and school attendance, I calculate the share of workers in 2005 that could have scored above 400 and above 600 in 45 countries. I find that the share above...
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GHG emission scenarios in Asia and the world: The key technologies for significant reduction
Akashi, Osamu; Hijioka, Yasuaki; Masui, Toshihiko; … - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S3, pp. 346-346
In this paper, we explore GHG emission scenarios up to 2050 in Asia and the world as part of the Asian Modeling …
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Economic Freedom ad World Economic Growth: Evidence and Implications
Cole, Julio H. - In: Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Economico (2005) 5, pp. 101-125
The purpose of this study is to explain the statistical variation in economic growth rates in a broad cross-section of countries, over the period 1980-1999. This problem will be addressed within the framework of the so-called "growth-regression" approach, which seeks to explain this variation by...
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Product generational dematerialization indicator: A case of crude oil in the global economy
Ziolkowska, Jadwiga R.; Ziolkowski, Bozydar - In: Energy 36 (2011) 10, pp. 5925-5934
Indicators for sustainable development, such as: Dow Jones sustainability group indices, life cycle index, ecological footprint, sustainability cities index, Well-Being Index, are acknowledged evaluation instruments in the international development policy. They are used to evaluate...
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Volatile World Milk Prices and Its Affect to National Market- Case of Serbian Milk Market
Popović, Rade; Radovanov, Boris; Jeremić, Marija - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2013
International milk market is created by 7% of world production volume. Volatile world milk prices in recent 6 years …. First, on macro level how world milk price affects national markets in case of New Zealand as leading world exporter …. Results improved understanding how world milk price influence milk price in Serbia and how price shocks are transmitted …
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