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Migration has manifested itself to historic highs, creating divisive views among politicians, policy makers, and individuals. The present paper studies the Europeans' attitudes toward immigration, focusing particularly on the role of social capital. Based on 267,282 respondents from 22 countries...
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of faith in democracy for some individuals across Europe. This report responds to the mandate included in the mission … dynamics. Among the processes of demographic change, the study specifically looks at the concentration of migrants in the local … better explained by socio-economic factors than the presence of migrants at local level. The structure of the report is the …
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How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards … migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic … economic consequences of COVID-19, before eliciting their altruism and attitudes towards Venezuelan migrants. We find that …
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In this paper, we propose multifactor models for the pan-European Equity Market using a block-bootstrap method and compare the results with those of traditional inferential techniques. The new factors are built from statistical measurements on stock prices - in particular, coefficient of...
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stated. For the first time, an influence of stochastically estimated monthly growth of GDP USA and Europe is quantified. To … extract monthly signals of GDP USA and Europe, dynamic factor models for panel data of different frequency information are … estimated monthly growth of GDP in Europe is observed for both crises and prosperity times. …
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The main aim of this paper is to explore the factors determining Microfinance institutions (MFIs) self-sufficiency. The data on selected variables for this research were obtained from the public MIX Market Database and cover the year of 2017. The empirical model is constructed with application...
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Purpose: This article investigates stock return predictability in the Korean stock market using the methodology of dynamic factor analysis. Design/methodology/approach: This article collects monthly data on the equity risk premium on the KOSPI and twelve financial and macroeconomic variables...
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This paper proposes a functional coefficient quantile regression model with heterogeneous and time-varying regression coefficients and factor loadings. Estimation of the model coefficients is done in two stages. First, we estimate the unobserved common factors from a linear factor model with...
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highest correction during the event day. The markets outside Europe (the US, Canada, and Australia) did not show significant …. These results can be used for designing risk management strategies in the Central and Eastern Europe. …
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