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Why Performance Differed Across Countries in the Recent Crisis. How Country Performance in the Recent Crisis Depended on Pre-crisis Conditions

Aiginger, Karl - 2011

The growth performance of countries proved to be very different during the recent crisis. We apply principal component analysis to derive a single ordinal indicator on growth performance and to analyse whether initial conditions of economies or structural characteristics can explain the...

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Why Labour Market Response Differed in the Great Recession: The Impact of Institutions and Policy

Aiginger, Karl; Horvath, Thomas; Mahringer, Helmut - 2011

This paper investigates the performance of labour markets during the recent crisis for 28 industrialised countries, specifically the reaction of employment and unemployment indicators relative to output changes. We construct a composite indicator for output as well as labour market performance....

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Determinants of the Growth Elasticity of Poverty Reduction. Why the Impact on Poverty Reduction is Large in Some Developing Countries and Small in Others

Wieser, Christina - 2011

This paper investigates the determinants of the growth elasticity of poverty by using the internationally designed poverty line, measured by the share of the population living below USD 1.25 per day. We identify the determinants of changes in the poverty rate of countries using single and...

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Trade Synchronisation During Major Economic Crises

Bärenthaler-Sieber, Susanne; Bilek-Steindl, Sandra; … - 2013

In this paper we present a new long-term database on monthly export and import series for 23 economies during 1921-2010 and its first empirical application. Using these data, we analyse the synchronised decline in foreign trade during the recession 2008-09 in a historical perspective. We...

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Whither Panama? Constructing a Consistent and Balanced World SUT System Including International Trade and Transport Margins

Streicher, Gerhard; Stehrer, Robert - 2012

This paper aims to complement work done within the WIOD project (the "World Input Output Database" project financed by … the world economy. The paper describes the derivation of international trade and transport margins (TIR services) together … with a consistent and balanced system of supply and use tables at the world level. As a by-product, this also yields supply …

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Measuring and Testing Complementarity and Co-evolution in Financial Systems

Saillard, Adeline; Url, Thomas - 2013

The distinction between bank- and market-based economies has a long tradition in applied macroeconomics. The two types of financial architecture differ not only with respect to the amount of funds channelled through private banking versus the capital market but with respect to several other...

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A Note on the Impact of Economic Regulation on Life Satisfaction

Knoll, Bodo; Pitlik, Hans; Rode, Martin - 2012

influence personal life satisfaction? Based on data from European and World Values Surveys and the Economic Freedom of the World …

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Zum Wandel der Finanzierungsstruktur in der Wohlstandsgesellschaft

Tichy, Gunther - 2014

The savings measures of private households currently exceed the limited financing needs of companies around the world …

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Economic Costs of Mass Violent Conflicts: Final Report for the Small Arms Survey, Geneva, Switzerland

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Drautzburg, Thorsten; … - 2008

COW and the UCDP/PRIO for conflicts and the Penn World Tables and the World Development Indicators for socioeconomic data …

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A Survey on the Economics of Security: Final Report for the European Commission, Directorate-General for Justice, Freedom and Security

Brück, Tilman; Karaisl, Marie; Schneider, Friedrich - 2008

This report assesses the literature on the inter-relations between the economy and security with particular focus on terrorism and the "human drivers of insecurity" to identify both available knowledge and crucial research gaps. In addition, the report surveys the European research capacity in...

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