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The role of media for inflation forecast disagreement of households and professional forecasters

Maag, Thomas; Lamla, Michael J. - 2009

This paper investigates the effects of media coverage and macroeconomic conditions on inflation forecast disagreement of German households and professional forecasters. We adopt a Bayesian learning model in which media coverage of inflation affects forecast disagreement by influencing...

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On misusing national accounts data for governance purposes

Hartwig, Jochen - 2005

According to KENDRICK (1996, p. 1), National Accounts have become an indispensable tool for macroeconomic analysis, projections, and policy formulation. The paper elaborates on this statement, addressing policy domains that rely heavily on National Accounts data. Yet - useful as they are -...

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Die konjunkturelle Ausrichtung der Schweizer Finanzpolitik im internationalen Vergleich: Ex-Ante- vs. Ex-Post-Betrachtung

Lampart, Daniel - 2005

Vergleich betrachtet. Der gängige Untersuchungsansatz wird dabei erweitert, indem zwischen der tatsächlichen (ex post) und der …

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Law and finance: Common-law and civil-law countries compared

Graff, Michael - 2005

The law and finance theory is an ambitious and fascinating attempt to combine insights from the theory of corporate finance, institutional economics, legal and economic history as well as the recent studies on the determinants of economic growth into an encompassing theory, thereby filling...

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Social housing and location choices of immigrants in France

Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - 2011

Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants of the probability for immigrants to live in a HLM (habitations à loyer modéré, dwelling with a...

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MNE’s Regional Location Choice - A Comparative Perspective on East Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland

Gauselmann, Andrea; Marek, Philipp; Angenendt, Jan Philipp - 2011

analysis shows that in comparison with Poland and the Czech Republic, East Germany's major benefit is its purchasing power, its … (FDI) in Transformationsökonomien auf regionaler Ebene (NUTS 2) beeinflussen. Die Untersuchung ist als Vergleich zwischen … zwischen den betrachteten Regionen. So belegt diese Analyse, dass Ostdeutschland im Vergleich zur Tschechischen Republik und …

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Regional integration in the Americas: State of play, lessons, and ways forward

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Shearer, Matthew; Suominen, Kati - 2011

The Americas have been a key driver of regional trade agreements (RTAs) since the 1990s. This study considers the effect of these agreements on trade liberalization, and the lessons that this offers for other parts of the world, notably Asia. It finds broad geographical coverage of RTAs in the...

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Crisis, imbalances, and India

Kumar, Rajiv; Vashisht, Pankaj - 2011

With the revival of global economy, the issues of exit policies and rebalancing global growth have taken center stage in policy discussions. Since many emerging Asian economies presently have large current account surpluses, the issue of rebalancing has special significance for Asia. While...

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What regulatory policies work for emerging markets?

Ping, Luo - 2011

This paper discusses the banking regulatory and supervisory practices in People's Republic of China (PRC) with reference to the international standard for banking supervision, namely, the Basel Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision (BCPs). While the PRC has incorporated many sound...

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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2011

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...

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