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Customer trading in the foreign exchange market empirical evidence from an internet trading platform

Lechner, Sandra; Nolte, Ingmar - 2007

This paper analyzes the relationship between currency price changes and their expectations. Currency price change expectations are derived with the help of different order flow measures, from the trading behavior of investors on OANDA FXTrade, which is an internet trading platform in the foreign...

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Systemic risk in the financial sector: an analysis of the subprime-mortgage financial crisis

Hellwig, Martin - 2008

The paper analyses the causes of the current crisis of the global financial system, with particular emphasis on the systemic elements that turned the crisis of subprime mortgage-backed securities in the United States, a small part of the overall system, into a worldwide crisis. The first half of...

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Sozialmodelle im internationalen Vergleich: wo stehen die neuen EU-Mitgliedstaaten

Knogler, Michael; Lankes, Fidelis - 2008

This paper explores social models in Europe with focus on the new EU Member States in a comparative perspective. The analysis is based on indicators representing the main tasks of social models. Principal components analysis yields three synthetic factors that reflect these tasks: the factor...

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The costs of organized violence : a review of the evidence

Skaperdas, Stergios - 2009

I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...

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Globalization, redistribution, and the composition of public education expenditures

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2010

We analyze whether globalization affects the composition of public expenditures for education by integrating arguments from the Heckscher-Ohlin and the tax competition literature into a common theoretical framework. The model suggests that with increasing global integration, developing countries...

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World heritage: where are we? An empirical analysis

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - 2010

An empirical overview of the UNESCO World Heritage List according to various characteristics is presented. The … officially stated intention of the World Heritage List is to protect global heritage. Our focus is on the imbalance of the … considered balanced from different points of view. It turns out that the World Heritage List is unbalanced with respect to a …

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Ethnic networks and US exports

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Coughlin, Cletus C.; Wall, Howard J. - 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which show that previous estimates of the...

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Happiness and the human development index: Australia is not a paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

in place of the HDI. Indeed, in the World Values Survey, only one other country (Iceland) has a significantly higher …

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Structural reforms and the exchange rate regime: a panel analysis for the world versus OECD countries

Belke, Ansgar; Herz, Bernhard; Vogel, Lukas - 2005

estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between …

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The wage curve reloaded

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2005

This paper provides evidence for the existence of a wage curve - a micro-econometric association between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate - in modern U.S. data. Consistent with recent evidence from more than 40 other countries, the wage curve in the United States has a long-run...

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