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Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003

Some committees convene behind closed doors while others publicly discuss issues and make their decisions. This paper studies the role of open and closed committee decision making in presence of external influence. We show that restricting the information of interest groups may reduce the bias...

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FDI and structural reforms in the Baltic States

Grigonyte, Dalia - 2010

Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to the Baltic countries were driven by different factors. Initially the process … of privatisation and low labour costs attracted investment into public utilities and manufacturing. Later, taking … the new millennium, the bulk of foreign investment was channelled to financial services. In line with FDI literature, the …

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On the indeterminacy of determinacy and indeterminacy

Beyer, Andreas; Farmer, Roger E. A. - 2003

A number of authors have attemted to test whether the U.S. economy is in a determinate or an indeterminate equilibrium. We argue that to answer this question, one must be impose a priori restrictions on lag length that cannot be tested. We provide examples of two economic models. Model 1...

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Millennium Development Goals at Midpoint : Where do we stand?

Bourguignon, François; Bénassy-Quéré, Agnès; … - 2008

and hunger by 2015, as well as reaching universal primary education, reducing under-5 and maternal mortality by two thirds …

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Monetary policy, housing booms and financial (im)balances

Eickmeier, Sandra; Hofmann, Boris - 2010

This paper uses a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) estimated on U.S. data in order to analyze monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to explore the role of monetary policy in the three...

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Human capital externalities and proximity evidence from repeated cross-sectional data

Canton, Erik - 2009

capital investment? As a strategy to detect human capital externalities I use Dutch survey data to estimate the impact of the …

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Weak and strong cross section dependence and estimation of large panels

Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, Hashem; Tosetti, Elisa - 2009

This paper introduces the concepts of time-specific weak and strong cross section dependence. A double-indexed process is said to be cross sectionally weakly dependent at a given point in time, t, if its weighted average along the cross section dimension (N) converges to its expectation in...

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Turkey - a new corporate world for Europe

Eczacibasi, Bülent - 2004

confidence and fuel foreign and domestic investment in Turkish industry to take advantage of labour and transportation costs. It …

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Die Erweiterung der Europäischen Union

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Erweiterung - 2003

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Enlargement of the European Union : an historic opportunity

Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Erweiterung - 2003

Dieser Text bietet einen historischen und gegenwärtigen Überblick über die EU-Erweiterung.

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