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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
Mishra, Prachi - 2008
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677368
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Macroeconomics of Migration in New Member States
Bems, Rudolfs - 2008
This paper examines the macroeconomic impact of migration on income convergence in the EU's New Member States (NMS). The paper focuses on cross-border mobility of labor and examines the implications for policymakers with the help of a general equilibrium model. It finds that cross-border labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677689
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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084585
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The domestic credit supply response to international bank deleveraging : is Asia different?
Aiyar, Shekhar; Jain Chandra, Sonali - 2012
During the global financial crisis, European banks contracted foreign claims on recipient economies sharply. This paper examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia. Identification is achieved by exploiting heterogeneity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009659761
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Breaking the Impediments to Budgetary Reforms : Evidence from Europe
Mody, Ashoka - 2008
Under what conditions are budget institutions likely to be strengthened? We find that fiscal deficits do not help in focusing policymakers on undertaking reforms. To the contrary, the larger the deficit, the lower is the likelihood of reforms. Large deficits apparently imply strong claims on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409017
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The Capital Markets of Emerging Europe : Institutions, Instruments and Investors
Ong, Li - 2008
Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and market segments, underpinned by the varying degrees of progress made in key areas such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409027
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House Price Developments in Europe : A Comparison
Hilbers, Paul - 2008
House prices in Europe have shown diverging trends, and this paper seeks to explain these differences by analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409059
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Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? Evidence from Emerging Europe
Igan, Deniz - 2008
-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677467
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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Fund, International Monetary - 2012
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677547
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House Price Developments in Europe
Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel - 2008
House prices in Europe have shown diverging trends, and this paper seeks to explain these differences by analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677654