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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?

Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016

Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more up-to-date. However, for many emerging and developing countries there is a lack of such surveys. This gap can, at least partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)....

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'By a silken thread' : regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan's Great Recession

Hoffmann, Mathias; Okubo, Toshihiro - 2013

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …

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The effects of monetary policy : a meta-analysis : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Macro, Money and International Finance, February 2004

De Grauwe, Paul; Costa, Cláudia - 2004

In this paper we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We use a sample of published papers on the effects of monetary policies in different countries. There is a large variation in the estimated effects of monetary policies on output and prices. We...

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Variation in risk seeking behavior in a natural experiment on large losses induced by a natural disaster

Page, Lionel; Savage, David; Torgler, Benno - 2012

. Using the margins of the 2011 Australian floods (Brisbane) as a natural experimental setting, we find that homeowners who …

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Floods and spillovers : households after the 2011 great flood in Thailand

Noy, Ilan; Nguyen, Cuong; Patel, Pooja - 2019

In 2011, Thailand experienced its worst flood ever. Using repeated waves of the Thai Household Survey, we analyse the …

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The effect of the "Woman Life Freedom" protests on life satisfaction in Iran : evidence from survey data

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023

This study examines the causal effect of the violent "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests in Iran during the last quarter of 2022 on individual life satisfaction. To evaluate the impact, we use two original representative surveys in Iran conducted in 2022. Our results, based on an ordered logit...

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One hundred years of oil income and the Iranian economy : a curse or a blessing?

Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2013

This paper examines the impact of oil revenues on the Iranian economy over the past hundred years, spanning the period 1908-2010. It is shown that although oil has been produced in Iran over a very long period, its importance in the Iranian economy was relatively small up until the early 1960s....

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The effects of international sanctions on military spending of Iran : a synthetic control analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2019

We use the synthetic control method to estimate the effect of international banking and energy sanctions from 2012 to 2015 on military spending of Iran. We create a synthetic control group that mimics the socioeconomic characteristics of Iran before the international sanctions of 2012. We then...

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Civilian killings and long-run development : evidence from the Korean war

Jung, Yeonha; Lim, Gedeon; Park, Sangyoon - 2025

This study examines the economic legacy of civilian killings during the Korean War, which disproportionately targeted local elites, educated individuals, and their families. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the spatial distribution of killings driven by...

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The fiscal costs of earthquakes in Japan

Noy, Ilan; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric; Tveit, Thomas - 2021

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

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