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Forecasting ECB monetary policy: accuracy is (still) a matter of geography

Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

countries, we find remarkable differences in forecast accuracy, and show that they are partly related to geography and …

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Geography or skills: What explains Fed watchers’ forecast accuracy of US monetary policy?

Berger, Helge; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - 2006

skills of analysts – such as their educational and employment backgrounds – and to geography. In particular, there is …

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Cables, Sharks and Servers: Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market

Eichengreen, Barry; Lafarguette, Romain; Mehl, Arnaud - 2016

We analyze the impact of technology on production and trade in services, focusing on the foreign exchange market. We identify exogenous technological changes by the connection of countries to submarine fiber-optic cables used for electronic trading, but which were not laid for purposes related...

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The Myth of Global Science

Hennemann, Stefan; Rybski, Diego; Liefner, Ingo - 2010

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes...

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The offline landscape of an online social network: distance and size shaping community spread and activity

Lengyel, Balazs; Jakobi, Akos - 2012

This initial paper of our interest on geography of online social network is based on a literature in which geographers … claimed to strongly twitted with physical world (Hayes, 1997). Parallel shift in economic geography research moved the focus …

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The Geography Of Trade Relations Between The EU And The ENP Countries: Emerging Patterns And Policy Recommendations

Petrakos, George; Kallioras, Dimitris; Artelaris, Panagiotis - 2013

objective of the paper is to study the geography (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction) of EU-ENP trade, conducting … the geography of EU-ENP trade, the paper offers valuable insight to both (economic integration) theory and policy-making. …

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How The West Has Won: Regional and Industrial Inversion in U.S. Patent Activity

Johnson, Daniel K.N.; Brown, Amy - 2002

While it is clear that there has been a 'regional inversion' in American patent activity over the past 25 years (i.e. relative rise of the Northwest and Southwest at the expense of the traditional invention hotbeds of the Northeast and Midwest), the reason is still open to speculation. Intuition...

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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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Regional financial system and the financial structure of small firms

Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Chaudhuri, Swayan - 2009

The capital structure of firms is known to be different not only due to firm characteristics but also to the sources of capital. Therefore, there is a need to understand the supply side effects on a firm´s capital structure. A small firm´s choice of financing sources may be limited by the...

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Genetic, cultural and geographical distances

Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio; Tonon, Giovanni - 2006

measures of geography within Europe, we show that i) geography explains both genetic distance and transportation costs between … European countries, and ii) genetic distance does not explain economic outcomes once we control for geography. We conclude that …

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