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Temporäre Marktungleichgewichte auf Bondmärkten: Aktive Handelsstrategien auf Basis geschätzter Zinsstrukturkurven

Kellerhals, B. Philipp; Uhrig-Homburg, Marliese - 1997

Auf Anleihemärkten versuchen Investoren mit aktiven Handelsstrategien eine über der risikoadäquaten Marktverzinsung liegende Rendite zu erwirtschaften. Dabei kommen prognoseorientierte Strategien wie auch Anlagepolitiken zur Verwendung, die zeitweilige Marktungleichgewichte zu nutzen...

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Trading volume and the short and long-run components of volatility

Liesenfeld, Roman - 1997

processes are assumed to be autocorrelated which makes standard estimation methods infeasible, a simulated maximum Iikelihood …

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Is the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis Valid for Developing Countries? Evidence from the Turkish Cement Industry

Saygili, Seref - 1998

. We use panel data on 40 Turkish cement plants for the period 1980-1995. The predictions of the efficiency wage hypothesis … are tested in two ways: estimation of wage augmented production frontiers and the simultaneous estimation of a production …

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Intention to Emigrate in Transition Countries: The Case of Albania

Papapanagos, Harry; Sanfey, Peter - 1998

We analyse the profile of potential emigrants from Albania using data from the Central and Eastern Europe Eurobarometer in 1992. Respondents were asked to rate on a four-point scale the likelihood that they would go to Western Europe to live and work. Our results show that the intention to...

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The Value of Skills

Green, Francis - 1998

Many commentators have argued that "key skills" are becoming more important in modern workplaces. This paper draws on a survey that uses a methodology based on job analysis to measure skills at work, and estimates their implicit prices using a hedonic wage equation. The main new findings are...

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The Effect of Disability on Employment Allowing for Work Incapacity

O'Donnell, Owen - 1998

Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is estimated from a sample of British disabled men....

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Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2013

This paper examines home bias in U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique data set of 1949 carload waybill … statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias … was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007 and that home bias in 1949 was even negative for several commodities. We …

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Remittances and Return Migration

Collier, William; Piracha, Matloob; Randazzo, Teresa - 2011

This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three sending countries in the Maghreb, namely Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. We investigate the remittance...

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Liquidity constraints versus loss aversion in household consumption: a simple reconciliation

van Treeck, Till - 2010

Various deviations from the Permanent Income consumption model with rational expectations have been discussed in the literature, including loss aversion and liquidity constraints. In the existing literature, these two types of consumption asymmetry are usually considered as mutually exclusive....

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The NAIRU and the Extent of the Low-Pay Sector

Garz, Marcel - 2010

. In a second step, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is used to calculate a time series of the extent of …

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