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Playing with the social network : social cohesion in resettled and non-resettled communities in Cambodia ; conference paper

Gobien, Simone; Vollan, Björn - 2013

using field laboratory experiments in Cambodian villages we study social cohesion in newly resettled and established … recipients might have to get additional compensation and formal insurance against the negative social consequences of … resettlement until social cohesion is eventually re-established. …

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25 years of "Northern" EU enlargement : 47th Economics Conference 2020 of the OeNB in cooperation with SUERF

Economics Conference <47., 2020, Wien>; … - 2020

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Regional income inequality lowers life satisfaction : evidence from OECD countries ; conference paper

Kalenborn, Christine; Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: February 2014

This paper analyzes the e ffect of regional income inequality within countries on individual life satisfaction. We use data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the European Values Survey (EVS) containing approximately 97,000 observations from 1981-2008. Regional income inequality is measured...

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Do public investments increase employment in a recession? : evidence from Germany ; conference paper

Buchheim, Lukas; Watzinger, Martin - 2013

In 2009, Germany invested 15.4 Billion Euro in infrastructure to avert the looming recession. In this study, we evaluate whether the German stimulus program was successful in limiting the impact of the crisis on the job market. We exploit exogenous cross-sectional variation to identify the...

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Government forecasts of budget balances under asymmetric loss : international evidence ; conference paper

Pierdzioch, Christian; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph - 2014

We study the loss function of 15 European governments as implied by their budget balance forecasts. Results suggest that the shape of the loss function varies across countries. The loss function becomes more asymmetric as the forecast horizon increases and in advance of parliamentary election....

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States, banks, and the financing of the economy : fiscal policy and sovereign risk perspectives

Balling, Morten (ed., introduction) - Colloquium "States, Banks and the Financing of the …; … - 2013

On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium "States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy" at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the chapters in this publication discuss from different...

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Sovereign default risk premia and state-dependent twin deficits : conference paper

Hürtgen, Patrick; Rühmkorf, Ronald - 2013 - This version: August 7, 2013

This paper studies the impact of the state-dependent risk of a government default on the correlation of the scal balance and current account. We use a small open economy model where nonlinear risk premia arise endogenously when the government operates close to its scal limit, i.e. the maximum...

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Does austerity pay off? : conference paper

Born, Benjamin; Müller, Gernot J.; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2014

Austerity measures are frequently enacted when the sustainability of public finances is in doubt. Such doubts are reflected in high sovereign yield spreads and put further strain on government finances. Is austerity successful in restoring market confidence, bringing about a reduction in yield...

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Revisiting the narrative approach of estimating fiscal multipliers : conference paper

Hebous, Shafik; Zimmermann, Tom - 2014

We re-examin the notion of identifying macroeconomic effects using the narrative approach taking as an application the estimation of tax multipliers. We point out to a test for the checking the adequacy of regressing the narrative measure directly on the outcome variable. This test...

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"Haircuts" for the EMU periphery : virtue or vice? ; conference paper

Neck, Reinhard; Blüschke, Dmitri - 2013 - Preliminary version

We use a dynamic game model of a two-country monetary union to study the impacts of an exogenous fall in aggregate demand, the resulting increase in public debt, and the consequences of a sovereign debt haircut for a member country or bloc of the union. In this union, the governments of...

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