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Macroeconomic stability and the real interest rate: A cross-country analysis

Groth, Charlotta; Zampolli, Fabrizio - 2010

We construct a measure of the short-term world interest rate using principal component analysis. Drawing on real … interest rate data for 18 OECD countries for the period 1985 - 2008, persistent deviations from the world interest rate that … that a rise in conditional consumption growth volatility relative to the rest of the world reduces the foreign exchange …

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What determines the finance-growth nexus? An endogenous growth model and empirical evidence

Graff, Michael; Karmann, Alexander - 2003

An endogenous growth model on finance and growth is formulated, and empirical analyses are conducted. The model exhibits structural shifts and breaks caused by institutional changes, suggesting that a linear approach is inadequate. To address this point empirically, we fit data for 90 countries...

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures: Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2006

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers and subsidies and away from capital expenditures. This expenditure shift is potentially enhanced...

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Signal extraction: How (in)efficient are model-based approaches?An empirical study based on TRAMO/SEATS and census X-12-ARIMA

Wildi, Marc; Schips, Bernd - 2004

Estimation of signals at the current boundary of time series is an important task in many practical applications. In order to apply the symmetric filter at current time, model-based approaches typically rely on forecasts generated from a time series model in order to extend (stretch) the time...

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Finanzielle Entwicklung und wirtschaftliches Wachstum: Eine Mehrwellen-Pfadanalyse

Graff, Michael - 2002

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Hochschulbildung und Wirtschaftswachstum: Neue empirische Ergebnisse

Graff, Michael - 2002

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Solicited and unsolicited credit ratings: A global perspective

Poon, Winnie P. H.; Chan, Kam C. - 2010

We conducted a global study of the long-term issuer ratings of nonfinancial firms from Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) for the period 1998-2003. Specifically, we focused on the solicited versus unsolicited ratings and sample-selection bias in the analysis. Unlike the literature, we...

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