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interest rate reaction functions based on a panel including actual EMU Member States. We find that exploiting the cross …-section dimen- sion of a multi-country panel and accounting for cross-country heterogeneity in advance of the single monetary policy … panel reaction function which is demonstrated to be a valuable tool for evaluating episodes of monetary policy since 1999. …
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case of ARGARCH models, the approximation process chosen in this paper shows a better estimation of the stock price … development based on autoregressive models and, thus, more robust estimation results for the reaction to a regulatory change … because of the national process of governments' adjustments. Thus, the estimation results provide evidence that companies …
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As, in Europe, many institutional reforms have been undertaken to establish an economic union, it can be expected that the relevance of borders has decreased over time. For the EU 15, we investigate the expected integration process of the market for corporate control - an illustrative market for...
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As, in Europe, many institutional reforms have been undertaken to establish an economic union, it can be expected that the relevance of borders has decreased over time. For the EU 15, we investigate the expected integration process of the market for corporate control - an illustrative market for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301320
Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
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Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298687
This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...
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whether it helps to use the information that was available at the time in the choice of instruments in the estimation of the …, estimates of the present and forecasts, from OECD Economic Outlook and National Accounts. We set this up as a panel for the euro … time information in the estimation of the Phillips curve is in using forecasts made at the time to represent expectations …
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-King, wavelets) as empirical measures of core money. The estimation results uniformly indicate that inflation and core money growth …
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In this paper we rely on techniques recently developed by Bai and Ng (2004a) to estimate common euro-area stationary and non-stationary factors using a large-scale dynamic factor model. We find that euro-area economies share four non-stationary factors or trends and one stationary factor. By...
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