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A four country comparison of spite, cooperation and errors in voluntary contribution mechanisms

Brandts, Jordi; Saijo, Tatsuyoshi; Schram, Arthur - 2000

This paper presents data from experiments with a linear voluntary contributions mechanism for public goods conducted in Japan, the Netherlands, Spain and the USA. The same experimental design was used in the four countries. Our 'contribution function' design allows us to obtain a more complete...

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Long-run inflation-unemployment dynamics: The Spanish Phillips curve and economic policy

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2003

This Paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in the growth rate of the money supply. We examine the Phillips curve from the perspective of what we call ‘frictional growth’, i.e. the interaction between money growth and...

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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, … - 2006

We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...

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Assessing the advantages of EMU-enlargement for the EU and the accession countries: a comparative indicator approach

Schweickert, Rainer - 2001

The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and optimality in comparison with a reference group of the...

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The information content in a volatility index for Spain

Gonzalez-Perez, Maria T.; Novales, Alfonso - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 2, pp. 185-216

A model-free methodology is used for the first time to estimate a daily volatility index (VIBEX-NEW) for the Spanish financial market.We use a public data set of daily option prices to compute this index and showthat daily changes in VIBEXNEW display a negative, tight contemporaneous...

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Policy effects on class-gender employment intersections

Cooke, Lynn Prince - 2009

This project explored how the sociopolitical context maps current class-gender intersections in relative employment equality in Australia, East and West Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The countries were selected based on their diverse policy equality logics codified...

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Income inequality developments in the great recession

Hellebrandt, Tomas - 2014

The Great Recession has increased concerns over the fairness of the distribution of wealth and income in many societies. Using data on eight advanced economies (Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovakia, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United States) between 2007 and 2010, I show how the Great...

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Effects of religiosity on social behaviour: Experimental evidence from a representative sample of spaniards

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Espín, Antonio M.; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

This study explores the effect of several personal religion-related variables on social behaviour, using three paradigmatic economic games: the dictator (DG), ultimatum (UG), and trust (TG) games. A large carefully designed sample of a Spanish urban adult population (N=766) is employed. From...

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Spanien: kräftige monetäre Impulse überdecken strukturelle Schwächen

Rietzler, Katja - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 11, pp. 131-137

Linie das Ergebnis der für Spanien stark expansiv wirkenden Geldpolitik der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) sowie der … dem Immobilienmarkt ausgelöst, der zunehmend Züge einer spekulativen Blase annimmt. Soll Spanien auf einem dauerhaften … anderen ist eine massive Förderung von Bildung und Forschung nötig, soll Spanien nicht länger den zweithöchsten Anteil an …

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Erfolgreiche Sparkassenreformen in Europa

Engerer, Hella; Schrooten, Mechthild - In: DIW Wochenbericht 71 (2004) 24, pp. 350-354

Das Dreisäulensystem ist kein spezifisches Phänomen des deutschen Bankensektors. Auch in zahlreichen europäischen Nachbarländern war ein Nebeneinander von Privatbanken, Genossenschaftsbanken und Sparkassen gang und gäbe. Einige der Länder haben jedoch wesentlich früher als Deutschland die...

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