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The economic and monetary union countries vs. the global crisis

Kowalski, Tadeusz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The global financial and economic crisis revealed institutional weaknesses and structural problems of particular Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries. The crisis and slowdown that followed had an impact on their relative competitiveness. Financial and economic turbulences of recent years...

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The global financial crisis: An analysis of the spillover effects on African stock markets

Sugimoto, Kimiko; Matsuki, Takashi; Yoshida, Yushi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper examines the relative importance of the global and regional markets for financial markets in developing countries, particularly during the US financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. We examine the way in which the degree of regional (seven African markets combined),...

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Pre- versus Post-Crisis Central Banking in Qatar

Elsamadisy, Elsayed Mousa; Alkhater, Khalid Rashid; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In the years before the global financial crisis of 2008--2010, Qatar experienced a huge build-up of liquidity surplus in the banking system, mainly driven by surging net capital inflows. This paper identifies various sources of interbank liquidity in Qatar and discusses the various implications...

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Sovereign risk contagion in the Eurozone: a time-varying coefficient approach

Ludwig, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper analyzes sovereign risk contagion in the Eurozone using an extension to the canonical model for contagion proposed by Pesaran and Pick (2007) and Metiu (2012) to allow for time-varying coefficients. This becomes necessary due to changes in the risk pricing of sovereign bonds since the...

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Capital Inflows, Credit Booms and Their Risks

Reinhart, Carmen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper highlights the findings of some of the recent research on capital flows, credit booms, and their attendant consequences for asset prices, business cycles, financial crises and the interaction among these. The aim is to condense key results from the relevant literature and promote...

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New measures of workforce skills in the EU

Kang, Lili; O'Mahony, Mary; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper presents new data series designed to yield a more complete picture of the growth in average skill levels embedded in the EU workforce, comparing with competitor countries such as the US and China. Harmonised data from EU surveys are employed to extend coverage in existing databases to...

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The Philippines in the Asian Financial Crisis: How the Sick Man Avoided Pneumonia

Noland, Marcus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

The Philippines has long been regarded as the weak sister of Asia, but in the Asian financial crisis it performed … of the eventual contraction were less in the Philippines than elsewhere in Asia. Rather, the Philippines crisis … experience offers valuable lessons for the Philippines, the rest of Asia, and indeed, emerging markets around the world. The …

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Cause and cure of the crisis

Colignatus, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The welfare state was created after 1950 with counterproductive mechanisms and this caused high inflation and high unemployment and stagnating growth by 1970, called stagflation. Since 1970 governments redressed the welfare state but did not succeed in finding workable mechanisms. They rather...

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The financial crisis: impact on BRIC and policy response

Banerjee, Ritwik; Vashisht, Pankaj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper looks at the transmission channels by which the financial crisis affected the four emerging economies- Brazil, Russia, India and China, the degree and extent of the impact of the crisis, the subsequent policy interventions which enabled recovery and an assessment of how successful...

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“Post financial crisis and exports expansion: Micro-evidence from Chilean exporters”

Álvarez, Roberto; Sáez, Camila - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes the performance of Chilean exporting firms during the period after the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009. After the crisis, world imports increased sustainably, which was used by Chilean firms in particular and the country in general. Specifically, larger firms, and those...

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