Title:Money Demand Stability and Inflation Prediction in the Four Largest EMU Countries
Author(s):CARSTENSEN, Kai; HAGEN, Jan; HOSSFELD, Oliver; NEAVES, Abelardo SalazarDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In this paper, we analyze the money demand functions of the four largest EMU countries and of the four-country (EMU-4) aggregate. We identify reasonable and stable money demand relationships for Germany, France and Spain ...
Title:More Equal but Less Mobile?: Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and in the US
Author(s):ICHINO, Andrea; CHECCHI, Daniele; RUSTICHINI, AldoDate:1999Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:A centralised and egalitarian school system reduces the cost of education for poor families, and so it should reduce income inequality and make intergenerational mobility easier. In this paper we provide evidence that ...
Title:Mothers in An Insider-Outsider Economy: the Puzzle of Spain
Author(s):ADAM-BERNAD, PaulaDate:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:There is growing evidence that social policies towards mothers have important effects on their labour market behaviour. This article argues that these effects are less important in a Male Breadwinner Regime if there is ...
Title:The multiscale causal dynamics of foreign exchange markets
Author(s):BEKIROS, Stelios; MARCELLINO, MassimilianoDate:2013Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This paper relies on wavelet multiresolution analysis to investigate the dependence structure and predictability of currency markets across different timescales. It explores the nature and direction of causality among the ...
Title:Negative Feedbacks in the Economy and Industrial Location
Author(s):BRAKMAN, S.; GARRETSEN, H.; GIGENGACK, R.; VANMARREWIJK, C.; WAGENVOORT, Rien J.L.M.Date:1996Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Incorporating regional asymmetry and negative feedbacks (congestion) in a model of economic geography and international trade shows that complete specialization of production at one location is unlikely. We identify an ...
Title:Network Formation Under Cumulative Advantage: Evidence From the Cambridge High-Tech Cluster
Author(s):GNUTZMANN, HinnerkDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:When joining a social network, the already well-connected often make for especially attractive partners because they can facilitate links to other network members. However, the effect is potentially weakened by increasing ...
Title:Network Games
Author(s):GALEOTTI, Andrea; GOYAL, Sanjeev; JACKSON, Matthew O.; VEGA-REDONDO, Fernando; YARIV, LeeatDate:2010Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:In contexts ranging from public goods provision to information collection, a player's well-being depends on his or her own action as well as on the actions taken by his or her neighbours. We provide a framework to analyse ...
Title:New Technology in Schools: Is there a Payoff?
Author(s):MACHIN, Stephen; MCNALLY, Sandra; SILVA, OlmoDate:2007Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. We exploit a change ...
Title:Noise Trader Risk in Financial-Markets
Author(s):DELONG, J. Bradford; SHLEIFER, Andrei; SUMMERS, Lawrence H.; WALDMANN, RobertDate:1990Type of Publication:Article
Title:Noise Trading and Exchange Rate Regimes
Author(s):JEANNE, Olivier; ROSE, Andrew K.Date:2002Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Policy-makers often justify their choice of fixed exchange rate regimes as a shelter against nonfundamental influences in the foreign exchange market. This paper proposes a framework, based on endogenous noise trading, ...
Title:A Note on Testing Restrictions for the Cointegration Parameters of a VAR with I(2)
Variables
Author(s):JOHANSEN, Soren; LUETKEPOHL, HelmutDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:We give a brief introduction to the vector autoregressive model for cointegrated I(2) variables and show how some plausible economic relations can be formulated in the I(2) framework in such a way that likelihood ratio ...
Title:Oligopoly Limit Pricing - Strategic Substitutes, Strategic Complements
Author(s):MARTIN, StephenDate:1995Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Conditions are outlined under which it is a sequential equilibrium for firms to forgo current profit to reduce the likelihood of entry, if firms are uncertain about rivals' costs. The assumptions about out-of-equilibrium ...