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overseas (H). This puts forth questions of market integration as well as cross-divisional information transmission. We address …
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In this paper, the influence of information costs on the integration of Northern European financial markets between ca … measuring one of these, i.e. the costs of transmitting information, which have particular importance for market integration. The … the same influences. Next, the integration of financial markets depended crucially on the level of transmission costs …
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This paper examines the questions of whether and how feudal rulers were able to credibly commit to preserving monetary stability, and of which consequences their decisions had for the efficiency of financial markets. The study reveals that princes were usually only able to commit to issuing a...
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The countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) are at an environmental cross-road. While they are still immersed in a process of economic and political transition that has brought distinctive environmental impacts, new opportunities for improving environmental conditions are...
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How did the transition from compulsory education to work change during the 1990s and which types of transition policies worked best? The experiences of 14 OECD countries are examined in this volume to address these two key questions, for as requirements for knowledge and qualifications and...
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How OECD countries can reconcile the twin, but potentially contradictory, goals of disability policy has yet to be resolved. One goal is to ensure that disabled citizens are not excluded from society: that they are encouraged and empowered to participate as fully as possible in economic and...
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The integration of immigrants at the local level is a topic of significant interest for OECD countries. The growing … accompanied by integration, that is, effective mechanisms for ensuring immigrants are effectively incorporated into local labor … integration results do not seem to be as favorable in a number of countries as they were in the past.--Publisher summary …
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
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