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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...

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Populism, economic policies and central banking

Agur, Itai; Gnan, Ernest; Masciandaro, Donato; Binder, … - Populism, Economic Policies and Central Banking …; … - 2020

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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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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Regulatory capture by sophistication : conference paper

Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - 2013

One explanation for the poor performance of regulation in the recent financial crisis is that regulators had been captured by the financial sector. We present a micro-founded model with rational agents in which banks may capture regulators due to their high degree of sophistication. Banks can...

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Testing the Easterlin hypothesis with panel data : the dynamic relationship between life satisfaction and economic growth in Germany and in the UK ; conference paper

Pfaff, Tobias; Hirata, Johannes - 2013 - This version: February, 2013

Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important...

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Regulation of pharmaceutical prices : evidence from a reference price reform in Denmark ; conference paper

Kaiser, Ulrich; Méndez, Susan; Rønde, Thomas; … - 2013 - This version: February 23, 2013

Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other countries) to an "internal" (based on comparable domestic products) reference price system. We find...

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Regional convergence analysis for skill-specific employment groups : conference paper

Werner, Daniel - 2013 - This version: 1st March 2013, Preliminary

In most of the developed countries the number of low-skilled workers decreased and the number of high-skilled workers increased. However, it is far from clear whether and how this change in the skill composition of the employees affects the evolution of regional employment disparities....

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