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Determinants of Global and Intra-European Imbalances

Schnabl, Gunther; Freitag, Stephan - 2012

The paper discusses global current account imbalances in the context of an asymmetric world monetary system and … against the euro or members of the euro area (euro periphery). The paper finds that changes of world current account positions …

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Währungskrieg: Schlagwort oder reale Bedrohung?

Klein, Martin; Teng, Faxin - 2011

Droht der Welt als Folge der Finanzkrise ein Währungskrieg? Wird die Welt nach mehr als 50 Jahren der Kooperation …

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The role of the chinese dollar peg for macroeconomic stability in China and the world economy

Schnabl, Gunther - 2011

During the 1997/98 Asian crisis and the 2007-2010 world financial and economic crisis, China has proved to be a … stabilizer for East Asia and the world. The paper stresses the crucial role of the dollar peg for macroeconomic stability in …, East Asia and the world economy. Distortions originating in real exchange rate stabilization are identified and are argued …

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Basel III and Systemic Risk Regulation - What Way Forward?

Georg, Co-Pierre - 2011

One of the most pressing questions in the aftermath of the financial crisis is how to deal with systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs). The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature on systemic risk and evaluate the regulation proposals in the Basel III framework...

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The Telecommunication Market: A Survey of Theory and Empirics

Segendorff, Björn - 1995

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The Foreign Operations of Swedish Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from a Survey of Swedish Multinationals 1998

Ekholm, Karolina; Hesselman, Marie - 2000

This paper presents the results of a survey of Swedish multinationals conducted in 1999. The survey was carried out in order to update an existing database on Swedish manufacturing firms with producing foreign affiliates collected by the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IUI). The...

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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class

Scervini, Francesco - 2009

The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...

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Standardizing the world income inequality database

Solt, Frederick - 2008

of significantly reduced comparability across observations. This article presents the Standardized World Income …

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Tax progression: International and intertemporal comparisons using LIS data

Pogorelskiy, Kirill; Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan - 2010

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

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Nearly universal, but somewhat distinct: The feminization of poverty in affluent Western democracies, 1969-2000

Brady, David; Kall, Denise - 2007

Our study extends research on the feminization of poverty by analyzing the variation in women's, men's and feminized poverty across affluent democracies from 1969 to 2000. Specifically, we address three issues. First, we provide more recent estimates of adult women's and men's poverty and the...

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