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Money, Financial Stability And Efficiency
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. The authors consider a standard banking model...
Provided by European University Institute
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Participatory Governance And European Administrative Law: New Legal Benchmarks For The New European Public Order
October 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
European Governance is more than just a policy instrument without legal significance. Its regulatory sub-divisions, such as Comitology, the Lamfalussy procedure, and the growing number of European...
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Globalisation And Labour Markets
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, how labour markets are affected by globalisation is examined. The paper takes the form of three chapters. The first chapter looks at the state of trade unions in Europe and how they...
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What Do CEOs Do?
January 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEO's time use. The idea sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can...
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Product And Process Innovation In A Growth Model Of Firm Selection
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent empirical evidence based on firm level data emphasizes firm heterogeneity in innovation activities and the different effects of process and product innovations on the productivity level and...
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Pooling Versus Model Selection For Nowcasting With Many Predictors: An Application To German GDP
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses pooling versus model selection for now- and forecasting in the presence of model uncertainty with large, unbalanced datasets. Empirically, unbalanced data is pervasive in...
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The Saving Glut Explanation Of Global Imbalances. The Role Of Underinvestment
November 29, 2009, 12:00am PST
According to the "Saving Glut hypothesis", global imbalances are caused by inefficiently high level of precautionary savings in financially underdeveloped regions, where agents have limited...
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International Financial Markets, Cross-Border Transmission Of Shocks And Risk-sharing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the most relevant events of the last decades has been the fast integration of international financial markets. As most restrictions to cross-border asset trade were removed, the volume of...
Provided by European University Institute
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Population Aging And Economic Growth: The Effect Of Health Expenditure
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rising longevity has led to population aging in developed countries, causing increasing concerns about its economic impact. Specially, the trend of population aging increases health expenditure in...
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North-South Trade And Growth: The Role Of Product Quality
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The traditional trade models, which rely on a comparative advantage based on regions' technology or endowments, or the new trade theory, designed to explain trade between the countries at a...
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Decision Making And Learning In A Globalizing World
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Decision-makers can benefit from the experience of others with solutions to common problems. If a best practice exists, the challenge is to recognize it and to ensure its diffusion. Information...
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Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk And The Rural Origins Of Aggregate Volatility
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation...
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Endogenous Growth Through Selection And Imitation
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A simple dynamic general equilibrium model is set up in which firms face idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Firms whose productivity has fallen too low exit, and entrants try to imitate the best...
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Rent Seeking, Market Structure And Growth
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors construct a model where firms compete in both political and economic markets. In political markets, firms compete for influence over government transfer policy (rents). This activity...
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, And Growth
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth in a model of growth through selection and imitation. The model is consistent with evidence on job turnover, firm...
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Firm Dynamics With Customer Markets
May 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a customer markets model into a model of firm dynamics. The authors assumed that household preferences are characterized by goods-specific (deep) habits. This preference...
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Access Regulation, Financial Structure And Investment In Vertically Integrated Utilities: Evidence From EU Telecoms
December 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors examine theoretically and empirically the relationship between access regulation, financial structure and investment decisions in network industries, analyzing if financial variables...
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Entrepreneurs Gender And Financial Constraints: Evidence From International Data
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several...
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Optimal Monetary Policy In Open Economies
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies optimal monetary stabilization policy in interdependent open economies, by proposing a unified analytical framework systematizing the existing literature. In the model, the...
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Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks Via Changes In Volatility
May 31, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A central issue of monetary policy analysis is the specification of monetary policy shocks. In a structural vector autoregressive setting there has been some controversy about which restrictions...
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Long Term Effects Of Fiscal Policy On The Size And The Distribution Of The Pie In The UK
December 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a joint analysis of the output and distributional long term effects of various fiscal policies in the UK, using a Vector Autoregression approach. The authors' findings suggest...
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Markov-perfect Optimal Fiscal Policy: The Case Of Unbalanced Budgets
October 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study optimal income taxation and public debt policy in a neoclassical economy populated by infinitely-lived households and a benevolent government. The government makes sequential...
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The Financing Structure Of Corporate R&D - Evidence From Regression Discontinuity Design
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the effect of a R&D subsidy on the investment and financing decisions of recipient firms. Locally unbiased identification is achieved using Regression Discontinuity Design....
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The Financing Structure Of Corporate R&D - Evidence From Regression Discontinuity Design
March 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The author studies the effect of a R&D subsidy on the investment and financing decisions of recipient firms. Locally unbiased identification is achieved using Regression Discontinuity Design....
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Markov-perfect Optimal Fiscal Policy: The Case Of Unbalanced Budgets
October 28, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The authors study optimal income taxation and public debt policy in a neoclassical economy populated by infinitely-lived households and a benevolent government. The government makes sequential...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Long Term Effects Of Fiscal Policy On The Size And The Distribution Of The Pie In The UK
December 17, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper provides a joint analysis of the output and distributional long term effects of various fiscal policies in the UK, using a Vector Autoregression approach. The authors' findings suggest...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Identifying Monetary Policy Shocks Via Changes In Volatility
May 31, 2006, 12:00am PDT
A central issue of monetary policy analysis is the specification of monetary policy shocks. In a structural vector autoregressive setting there has been some controversy about which restrictions...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Optimal Monetary Policy In Open Economies
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies optimal monetary stabilization policy in interdependent open economies, by proposing a unified analytical framework systematizing the existing literature. In the model, the...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Entrepreneurs Gender And Financial Constraints: Evidence From International Data
May 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies gender discrimination against entrepreneurs by financial institutions. Based on the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) that covers firms in several...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Access Regulation, Financial Structure And Investment In Vertically Integrated Utilities: Evidence From EU Telecoms
December 2, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors examine theoretically and empirically the relationship between access regulation, financial structure and investment decisions in network industries, analyzing if financial variables...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Rent Seeking, Market Structure And Growth
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
The authors construct a model where firms compete in both political and economic markets. In political markets, firms compete for influence over government transfer policy (rents). This activity...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Endogenous Growth Through Selection And Imitation
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
A simple dynamic general equilibrium model is set up in which firms face idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Firms whose productivity has fallen too low exit, and entrants try to imitate the best...
Provided by European University Institute
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White Papers
Urban Growth, Uninsured Risk And The Rural Origins Of Aggregate Volatility
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Decision Making And Learning In A Globalizing World
May 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Decision-makers can benefit from the experience of others with solutions to common problems. If a best practice exists, the challenge is to recognize it and to ensure its diffusion. Information...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
North-South Trade And Growth: The Role Of Product Quality
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The traditional trade models, which rely on a comparative advantage based on regions' technology or endowments, or the new trade theory, designed to explain trade between the countries at a...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Population Aging And Economic Growth: The Effect Of Health Expenditure
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Rising longevity has led to population aging in developed countries, causing increasing concerns about its economic impact. Specially, the trend of population aging increases health expenditure in...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
International Financial Markets, Cross-Border Transmission Of Shocks And Risk-sharing
June 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
One of the most relevant events of the last decades has been the fast integration of international financial markets. As most restrictions to cross-border asset trade were removed, the volume of...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
The Saving Glut Explanation Of Global Imbalances. The Role Of Underinvestment
November 29, 2009, 12:00am PST
According to the "Saving Glut hypothesis", global imbalances are caused by inefficiently high level of precautionary savings in financially underdeveloped regions, where agents have limited...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Pooling Versus Model Selection For Nowcasting With Many Predictors: An Application To German GDP
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper discusses pooling versus model selection for now- and forecasting in the presence of model uncertainty with large, unbalanced datasets. Empirically, unbalanced data is pervasive in...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Product And Process Innovation In A Growth Model Of Firm Selection
June 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recent empirical evidence based on firm level data emphasizes firm heterogeneity in innovation activities and the different effects of process and product innovations on the productivity level and...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
What Do CEOs Do?
January 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEO's time use. The idea sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Globalisation And Labour Markets
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, how labour markets are affected by globalisation is examined. The paper takes the form of three chapters. The first chapter looks at the state of trade unions in Europe and how they...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Participatory Governance And European Administrative Law: New Legal Benchmarks For The New European Public Order
October 18, 2006, 12:00am PDT
European Governance is more than just a policy instrument without legal significance. Its regulatory sub-divisions, such as Comitology, the Lamfalussy procedure, and the growing number of European...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Money, Financial Stability And Efficiency
January 16, 2011, 12:00am PST
Most analyses of banking crises assume that banks use real contracts. However, in practice contracts are nominal and this is what is assumed here. The authors consider a standard banking model...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Firm Dynamics With Customer Markets
May 21, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces a customer markets model into a model of firm dynamics. The authors assumed that household preferences are characterized by goods-specific (deep) habits. This preference...
Provided by European University Institute
-
White Papers
Employment Protection, Firm Selection, And Growth
August 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth in a model of growth through selection and imitation. The model is consistent with evidence on job turnover, firm...
Provided by European University Institute
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