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What do we know about recent exchange rate models? : in-sample fit and out-of-sample performance evaluated
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Pascual, Antonio … - 2003
Previous assessments of nominal exchange rate determination have focused upon a narrow set of models typically of the 1970 s vintage, including monetary and portfolio balance models. In this paper we re-assess the in-sample fit and out-of-sample prediction of a wider set of models that have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507659
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016
from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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Welfare-to-work experiences with specific work-first programmes in selected countries
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004
welfare recipients in the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. It primarily refers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402571
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor);  … - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771831
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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants
Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805994
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Electoral uncertainty, fiscal policies & growth : theory and evidence from Germany, the UK and the US
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Malley, James R.; … - 2003
economic growth. The model is estimated using quarterly data for Germany, the UK and the US from 1960 to 1999. Our econometric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511068
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Ageing and the tax implied in public pension schemes : simulations for selected OECD countries
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
, this will be illustrated for the cases of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the UK, and the US. The results are based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514127
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Covid-induced school closures in the US and Germany : long-term distributional effects
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2022
dropped on average by -55% in the US and -45% in Germany from the onset of the crisis to the summer of 2021. In the US …, schools were closed longer in richer than in poorer areas, while in Germany the regional variation is much smaller. However …, Germany exhibited substantial variation by grade level, with a strong U-shaped patterns that implies that children attending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177101
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The world's rust belts : the heterogeneous effects of deindustrialization on 1,993 cities in six countries
Gagliardi, Luisa; Moretti, Enrico; Serafinelli, Michel - 2023
We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444059