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Productivity growth and value chains in four European countries

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Advanced economies have been witnessing a pronounced slowdown of productivity growth since the global financial crisis that is accompanied in recent years by a withdrawal from trade integration processes. We study the determinants of productivity slowdown over the past two decades in four...

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Destabilizing the global monetary system : Germany's adoption of the gold standard in the early 1870s

Wiegand, Johannes - 2019

bimetallism, id est, a near-universal fixed exchange rate system in which (mostly) France stabilized the exchange value between … France, which would have severed the link between gold and silver currencies. Without reform, Germany would thus have risked … accommodation, however. Victory in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870/71 allowed Germany to force accommodation, but only until France …

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Modeling optimal fiscal consolidation paths in a selection of European countries

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Fiscal expectations under the Stability and Growth Pact : evidence from survey data

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The Effects of Dividend Taxeson Equity Prices : A Re-Examination of the 1997 U.K. Tax Reform

Bond, Stephen - 2007

We re-examine the extent to which personal taxes on dividends are capitalized into the equity prices of domestic firms, using data from around the time of the 1997 U.K. dividend tax reform, which removed a significant tax credit for an important group of investors: U.K. pension funds. The...

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The Effects of European Economic Integrationon the Profitability of Industries

Hakura, Dalia - 1998

This paper examines the effects of intensified international competition on industry profits in six European Union (EU) countries. The paper uses two methods to estimate industry profits. The traditional method uses accounting data to obtain a measure of gross price-average cost margins. The...

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Economic and Legal Considerations of Optimal Privatization : Case Studies of Mortgage Firms (Depfa Group and Fannie Mae)

Garrett, John R. - 1999

Successful privatization must be accompanied by the complete removal of privileges and any public policy mission. Bank behavior changes rapidly as profit maximation replaces the bureaucratic objective function. Once privileges are granted, they are difficult to remove. Therefore, privatization...

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Asymmetry in the ERM : A Case Study of French and German Interest Rates Since Basle-Nyborg

Perraudin, W. R. M. - 1992

We study empirically daily French and German interest rate changes since the Basle-Nyborg agreement of September 1987. In particular, we ask whether the shock associated with German unification altered the degree of leadership of German monetary policy in the ERM. We conclude that Germany’s...

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The Fisher Hypothesis and Inflation Persistence : Evidence From Five Major Industrial Countries

Peng, Wensheng - 1995

recently developed time series techniques. The results suggest that the Fisher effect is stronger in France, the United Kingdom …

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