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The Dollar's Double Life: Not All Dollar Appreciations Are Born Equal for the Cross‐Currency Basis
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper revisits the relationship between the US dollar and cross‐currency basis (XCB) swap spreads. We show that the strength and direction of this relationship depend on the prevailing regime of the broad dollar. The evidence suggests that the well‐documented “dollar appreciates, basis widens” result holds primarily when the dollar is in ...
Daniel Felix Ahelegbey +2 more
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Breaking New Ground in Switzerland: Work Visa and Labour Law Aspects [PDF]
, 2006 [Excerpt] The purpose of this memorandum is to provide a general overview of Swiss Labour Law. This document however, is only a summary and does not explore every issue in detail.
Baker & McKenzie
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Oil Futures Prices, Inflation Expectations, and Bond Risk Premiums
Journal of Futures Markets, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By decomposing West Texas Intermediate futures price changes into structural supply and demand shocks, this paper shows that dissecting the oil price significantly improves inflation forecasts. Empirically, demand‐driven shocks predict a negative real bond risk premium but a positive inflation risk premium; these opposing effects result in an ...
Haibo Jiang
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Regulation of the private group insurance contract in the European law [PDF]
Evropska revija za pravo osiguranja, 2013 SUMMARY Private group insurance contracts in property and person insurances enhance goals’ execution in protection of diff erent categories of insured against risks, but also they cover needs of citizen for protection within the social insurance and fi nancial services.
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Employment and Working Conditions of Selected Types of Platform Work [PDF]
, 2018 Platform work is a form of employment that uses an online platform to match the supply of and demand for paid labour. In Europe, platform work is still small in scale but is rapidly developing.
de Groen, Willem Pieter +3 more
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Asymmetric Information With Multiple Risks: The Case of the Chilean Private Health Insurance Market
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We extend the Rothshild and Stiglitz (1976) model to two sources of risk –inpatient and outpatient risk– to better proxy real‐world health insurance markets. We uncover an interesting theoretical possibility: Take individuals A and B, who are low risks in, say, the inpatient dimension but A is riskier in the outpatient dimension.
Dolores de la Mata +3 more
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Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Compensation plays a pivotal role in shaping employee behavior, motivation, and well‐being. Although extant research has explored various dimensions of compensation, questions about how important pay is to employees and concerns (on the part of employers and/or employees) about the unintended negative (in addition to intended positive ...
Barry Gerhart, Ji Hyun Kim, Shan He
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Актуальні питання суспільних наук та історії медицини, 2015 Ецко К., Буга М., Дамашкан В. Історичні етапи впровадження обов'язкового медичного страхування в республіці Молдова Модель обов'язкового медичного страхування, впроваджена в Республіці Молдова, містить загальні елементи, характерні для систем ...
Єцко Констянтин +2 more
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Sustainable Work and Employment in Social Care: New Challenges, New Priorities
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human Resource Management (HRM) research focused on social care is sparse. This gap is surprising given the scale of the social care workforce in many countries, its vital role in meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable community groups, and the persistent challenges in recruiting and retaining staff.
Ian Kessler +4 more
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Expectations and Speculation in the US Natural Gas Market
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper aims to assess the role of expectations as a determinant of the real price of natural gas in the US. Three specifications of a structural VAR (SVAR) model are estimated to identify an expectations‐driven speculative demand shock. The first includes natural gas inventories, consistently with the theory of storage; the second the risk‐
Christina Anderl +1 more
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