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Governments on both sides of the Atlantic have reacted with a raft of new regulations to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The article argues that while these new rules actually touch many of the incentive and information problems which were instrumental in creating the crisis, they only address...
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This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...
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We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some challenges to updating the evidence, as the CPS data on which it relies changed geographic coding...
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Fünf Jahre nach dem Ausbruch der Finanzmarktkrise hat sich einiges getan: Die USA und die Mitgliedstaaten der … regulation of financial markets. Since then the governments in the USA and the EU have signifi cantly tightened financial market …
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Fragmentierung der USA, zugleich in eine Schwächung und Fragmentierung des transatlantischen Westens.« Für Thomas Jäger, Universität … weiter erhöhen wird. Sollten die USA nicht rechtzeitig gegensteuern, drohe dem Land ein finanzieller Kollaps und politische … verpasste Chance sowohl für die EU als auch die USA. …
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distinguish between the case of Latin America and that of the USA. Overall, I show that the slave trades exert a lasting impact …
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In this paper, we compare the transmission of a conventional monetary policy shock with that of an unexpected decrease in the term spread, which mirrors quantitative easing. Employing a time-varying vector autoregression with stochastic volatility, our results are two-fold: First, the spread...
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