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Do Retirement Savings Increase in Response to Information About Retirement and Expected Pensions?

Dolls, Mathias - 2018

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002-04), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and...

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Going NUTS : The Effect of EU Structural Funds on Regional Performance

Becker, Sascha O. - 2009

The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU … average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for … structural funds transfers from the central EU budget. This rule gives rise to a regression-discontinuity design that exploits …

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Did Austerity Cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with … specific welfare reforms as well as broader measures of political preferences. The results suggest that the EU referendum could …

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Carbon Pricing in the EU : Evaluation of Different EU ETS Reform Options

Brink, Corjan - 2015

This paper studies various options to support allowance prices in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), such as … adjusting the cap, an auction reserve price, and fixed and variable carbon taxes in addition to EU ETS. We use a dynamic … at the EU Member State level. We find that both a variable carbon tax and an auction reserve price support effective …

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The Heterogeneous Impact of Brexit : Early Indications from the FTSE

Davies, Ronald B. - 2017

The UK's decision to leave the EU is surrounded by several studies simulating its potential effects. Alternatively, we …

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Consequences of Brexit and Options for a 'Global Britain'

Brakman, Steven - 2017

; most studies predict a trade and welfare loss for both the UK and the EU. The UK parliament has indicated that it aims for … for the EU. After reviewing all potential options, we have a simple answer to the question whether the UK has an … alternative for the existing trade agreement with the EU. The answer is: No. Only a trade agreement with the EU can compensate for …

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Asset Allocation and Monetary Policy : Evidence from the Eurozone

Hau, Harald - 2014

The eurozone has a single short-term nominal interest rate, but monetary policy conditions measured by real short-term interest rates varied substantially across countries in the period 2003-2010. We use this cross-country variation in the (local) tightness of monetary policy to examine its...

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The Impact of Basel III on Trade Finance : The Potential Unintended Consequences of the Leverage Ratio

Auboin, Marc - 2014

Trade finance, particularly in the form of short-term letters of credit has received favourable capital treatment new Basel III rules. However, concerns have been expressed over the potential negative “unintended consequences” of the newly created leverage ratio for trade. This paper offers...

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The European Central Bank's QE : A New Hope

Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016

We examine the impact of the ECB's QE on Euro Area real GDP and core CPI with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data from 2012M6 to 2016M4. We assess the total impact via a counter-factual exercise, country-by-country and through alternative transmission channels. QE announcement shocks are...

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A Ricardian Analysis of the Impact of Climate Change on European Agriculture

Van Passel, Steven - 2014

This research estimates the impact of climate on European agriculture using a continental scale Ricardian analysis. Climate, soil, geography and regional socio-economic variables are matched with farm level data from 37,612 farms across Western Europe. We demonstrate that a median quantile...

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