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Workshop "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs", Brussels, 1 February 2010

Saraiva, António; Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Nowak, Maria - 2010

A workshop on the "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 February 2010. This document contains the programme, presentations and proceedings of that workshop.

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Managing household debts : social service provision in the EU ; Workshop report - Brussels, 25 June 2010

European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and … - 2010

Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...

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Outlook vs. Futures: Three Decades of Evidence in Hog and Cattle Markets

Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H. - 2007

indicate,with one exception, no meaningful differences in forecast accuracy between outlook forecastsand futures prices. The …

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How Much Can Outlook Forecasts be Improved? An Application to the U.S. Hog Market

Colino, Evelyn V.; Irwin, Scott H.; Garcia, Philip - 2008

flexibility and model averaging consistently outperform Iowa outlook estimates at all forecast horizons. Evidence from the … encompassing tests, which are highly stringent tests of forecast performance, indicates that many price forecasts do provide … incremental information relative to Iowa. Simple combinations of these models and outlook forecasts are able to reduce forecast …

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Can Parallel Exchange Rates Forecast Commodity Prices?

Roberts, John F - 2009

Commodity price uncertainty imposes large costs on society. On the macro level, it results in sudden and unexpected shifts in current account imbalances and real GDP volatility, while on the micro level, it leads to allocation inefficiencies. Accurate price forecasts have the potential to remove...

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Biases in Individual Forecasts: Experimental Evidence

Ackert, Lucy; Church, Bryan K.; Ely, Kristen - 2008

divergent information. We manipulate forecast ability so that two individuals are strong analysts and two are weak. In three …

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Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise - Teil II : Präsentationen

Voß, Stefan; Müller, Alfred - 2011

Präsentationen zu <a href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus-3379">Die Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise mit …

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Die IKB-Krise

Blattmann, Theresa - 2011

Das Arbeitspapier behandelt die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf der IKB-Krise.

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Receivables Securitization and the Non-Financial Firm

Korgaonkar, Sanket - 2009

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems experienced. The amount of Asset Backed Commercial Paper outstanding fell drastically in the middle of 2007 drawing our attention to this market. Our study focuses on the use of...

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How capital structure adjusts dynamically during financial crises

Ariff, Mohamed; Taufiq, Hassan; Shamsher, Mohamad - 2008

The availability of a unique data set of financially distressed firms enabled this study to apply the dynamic capital structure adjustment model to a study of capital structure. In addition, the factors driving capital structure adjustment of financially distressed and of healthy firms were...

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