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Campanella, Edoardo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-25, pp. 1-18

Tiny changes in the American monetary policy can have dramatic effects on the rest of the world because of dollar …

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Seater, John J. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-35, pp. 1-30

A transactions model of the demand for multiple media of exchange is developed. Some results are expected, and others are both new and surprising. There are both extensive and intensive margins to currency substitution, and inflation may affect the two margins differently, leading to subtle...

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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures

Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-34, pp. 1-41

Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...

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Offshoring, job satisfaction and job insecurity

Budría, Santiago; Milgram Baleix, Juliette - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020) 2020-23, pp. 1-32

This paper investigates the effects of offshoring on individual job satisfaction and perceived risk of job loss. The … workers in industries with higher offshoring intensity report lower job satisfaction and/or are more prone to be unsecure at … offshoring is associated with lower job satisfaction. The results are also indicative of some heterogeneity in the offshoring …

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Transaction taxes and traders with heterogeneous investment horizons in an agent-based financial market model

Demary, Markus - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-8, pp. 1-44

This agent-based financial market model is a generalization of the model of Westerhoff (The Use of Agent-Based Financial Market Models to Test the Effectiveness of Regulatory Policies) by traders who are allowed to have different investment horizons as introduced by Demary (Who Does a Currency...

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Forecast Evaluation of Explanatory Models of Financial Variability

Sucarrat, Genaro - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-8, pp. 1-33

A practice that has become widespread and widely endorsed is that of evaluating forecasts of financial variability obtained from discrete time models by comparing them with high-frequency ex post estimates (e.g. realised volatility) based on continuous time theory. In explanatory financial...

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The portfolio theory of inflation and policy (in)effectiveness

Bossone, Biagio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-33, pp. 1-25

The analysis of open macroeconomies typically assumes (implicitly or explicitly) that resource allocation decisions are taken by domestic agents. The Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI) developed in this study assumes that some critical allocation decisions are taken by global investors and...

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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World: New Estimates for 145 Countries

Schneider, Friedrich G. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 1 (2007) 2007-9, pp. 1-66

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2005 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2004/05 in 96 developing countries is 36.7%, in 25 transition...

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How Much Do Perceptions of Corruption Really Tell Us?

Weber Abramo, Claudio - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-3, pp. 1-56

Regressions and tests performed on data from Transparency International Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) 2004 survey show that personal or household experience of bribery is not a good predictor of perceptions held about corruption among the general population. In contrast, perceptions about...

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Are All Measures of International Reserves Created Equal? An Empirical Comparison of International Reserve Ratios

Wong, Clement Yuk-pang; Cheung, Yin-Wong - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-15, pp. 1-61

Using available annual data of 174 economies since 1957, we examine the similarities and differences of seven international reserve ratios. While individual international reserve ratios display substantial variations across economies, they are associated with an economy?s characteristics...

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