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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742833
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742960
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Populism, economic policies and central banking
Agur, Itai; Gnan, Ernest; Masciandaro, Donato; Binder, … - Populism, Economic Policies and Central Banking …; … - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225066
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Contagion and spillovers : new insights from the crisis : a joint publication with the Austrian Society for Bank Research
Backé, Peter (ed.); Gnan, Ernest (ed.);  … - Contagion and Spillovers – New Insights from the …; … - 2010
On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...
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The rents of banking : a public choice approach to bank regulation
Buck, Florian Christopher - 2015
The rise of a crisis-prone banking sector and its political power has received significant attention following the most recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large, unstable banks. Excessive banking activity arose...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742914
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Elites and bank-based finance : a political economy model on the emergence of financial systems ; conference paper
Buck, Florian; Hildebrand, Nikolaus - 2014 - Preliminary first draft
Why do some economic systems depend on bank financing while others rely on capital markets and bond financing? We propose a political economy model in which elites favor a bank-based system, which increases their rents due to reduced competition. If suffrage is restricted to the elite, this will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483279
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Essays on the behavior of firms and politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741962
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Reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental health : conference paper
Grunow, Martina - 2013
This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental health. I show that … the negative effect of unemployment on mental health depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several … unemployment rate. We argue that expectations are a possible link between unemployment rates and the individual employment status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336809
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Welfare transitions before and after reforms of the German welfare system
Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013
We study state dependence in the German welfare system and compare transition patterns before and after recent reforms of the welfare system (Hartz Reforms). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344640
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Downward real wage rigidity and equal treatment wage contracts : evidence from Germany ; conference paper
Snell, Andy; Stüber, Heiko - 2014
unemployment is very close to zero when unemployment is above its long term average but large and highly significant when below. We … unemployment. It cannot however match the persistence of the German unemployment rate. We conjecture that extending the model to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490623