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Institutional Determinants of Labor Reallocation in Transition

Boeri, Tito; Terrell, Katherine - 2001

Studying the transition means analyzing the interactions between institutions and structural change, a process we still know very little about. In this paper we show that the transition process has been very different in the countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and those of Central and...

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Do institutional changes affect business cycles? : evidence from Europe

Canova, Fabio; Ortega Eslava, Eva; Ciccarelli, Matteo - 2009

We study the effects that the Maastricht treaty, the creation of the ECB, and the Euro changeover had on the dynamics of European business cycles using a panel VAR and data from ten European countries - seven from the Euro area and three outside of it. There are slow changes in the features of...

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Modeling the Volatility of Real GDP Growth: The Case of Japan Revisited

Fang, WenShwo; Miller, Stephen M. - 2008

Previous studies (e.g., Hamori, 2000; Ho and Tsui, 2003; Fountas et al., 2004) find high volatility persistence of economic growth rates using generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) specifications. This paper reexamines the Japanese case, using the same approach and showing...

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Projected refined product balances in key Latin American countries: A preliminary examination

2009

Over the years, the East-West Center (EWC) has developed considerable expertise in refinery modeling, especially in the area of forecasting product balances for countries, given planned capacity changes, changes in product demand, changes in crude slates, and changes in product specifications....

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Risk Preferences and Demand for Insurance in Peru: A Field Experiment

Galarza, Francisco B.; Carter, Michael R. - 2010

This paper reports the results of behavioral economic experiments conducted in Peru toexamine the relationship amongst …

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ACEITAÇÃO E SEGMENTAÇÃO DO MERCADO DE PRODUTOS DERIVADOS DA CARNE DE PERU

Pulici, Rodrigo; Alves, Flavio Rocha; Gameiro, Augusto … - 2008

- de certa forma - este desempenho. Como o frango de corte, grande parte da produção de carne de peru é exportada. Todavia … de peru, que se apresenta bastante baixo, apesar do crescimento nos últimos cinco anos. A presente pesquisa analisou a … estratégia de segmentação do mercado dos produtos à base de carne de peru, o comportamento de compra baseado nos preços desses …

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SCENAR2020: Future of European Agriculture under Different Policy Options, the economic modelling framework

Banse, Martin; Helming, John F.M.; van Meijl, Hans; … - 2008

This paper identifies major future trends and driving factors and perspectives and challenges resultingfrom them for European agriculture and food sectors until the year 2020. The focus of the paper is ananalysis of key driving forces and the provision of a well developed reference scenario...

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Volatility Spillovers in Agricultural Commodity Markets: An Application Involving Implied Volatilities from Options Markets

Zhao, Jieyuan; Goodwin, Barry K. - 2011

This paper discusses the volatility spillover effects in agricultural commodity markets, via studying implied volatilities derived from nearby options contracts. Using weekly averaged data from corn and soybean markets after 2003, a vector autoregressive (VAR) model is estimated, and impulse...

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Forecasting Corn Futures Volatility in the Presence of Long Memory, Seasonality and Structural Change

Wang, Xiaoyang; Garcia, Philip - 2011

Price volatility in the corn market has changed considerably globalization and stronger linkages to the energy complex. Using data from January 1989 through December 2009, we estimate and forecast the volatility in the corn market using futures daily prices. Estimates in a Fractional Integrated...

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Liberalization of Staple Crops: Lessons from the Mexican Experience in Maize

Yunez-Naude, Antonio; Serrano-Cote, Valeria - 2009

In this paper we inquire why after more than 25 years of domestic agricultural reforms in Mexico and 15 years of trade liberalization of maize under NAFTA –a non-competitive crop and the major staple in Mexico–domestic production of this field crop has increased. We present new empirical...

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