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Trade Sanctions and Green Trade Liberalization [PDF]
This paper studies the impact of a WTO withdrawal of trade concessions against countries that fail to respect globally recognized environmental standards.
Alireza Naghavi
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Book Review: “ASIA ON TOUR: Exploring the rise of Asian tourism” [PDF]
, 2010 A review of the book "Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism," edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T. C.
Chris, Ryan
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New Eurocoin: Tracking Economic Growth in Real Time [PDF]
Removal of short-run dynamics from a stationary time series to isolate the medium to long-run component, can be obtained by a band-pass filter. However, band pass filters are infinite moving averages and can therefore deteriorate at the end of the sample.
Filippo Altissimo +4 more
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On Some Neglected Implications of the Fisher Effect [PDF]
Following the lead of Fama [American Economic Review 65 (1975) 269-282] and of other influential papers, such as Mishkin [Journal of Monetary Economics 30 (1992) 195-215], it has become standard to interpret the Fisher effect as the ability of short-term
Antonio Ribba
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The Italian Corporate Network, 1952-1983: New Evidence Using the Interlocking Directorates Technique [PDF]
The paper explores the structure of the Italian corporate network by focusing on the relationships between financial - banks, insurances and holdings - and industrial firms in Italy during the period 1952-83 through the analysis of the interlocks that ...
Alberto Rinaldi, Michelangelo Vasta
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Children Capabilities and Family Characteristics in Italy [PDF]
This paper explores the possibilities of using structural equation modelling to measure capabilities of Italian children. In particular the paper focuses on two capabilities: “Senses, Imagination and Thought” and “Leisure and Play Activities ”.
Maria Laura Di Tommaso, Tindara Addabbo
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The Recent Performance of the Traditional Measure of Core Inflation in G7 Countries [PDF]
In this paper we undertake an empirical investigation concerning the performance of the traditional measure of core inflation in recent years. We consider the group of G7 countries and explore both the high-frequency and the low-frequency relations ...
Antonio Ribba, Luciana Lo Bue
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Rent seekers in rentier states: When greed brings peace [PDF]
Are natural resources a source of conflict or stability? Empirical studies demonstrate that rents from natural resources, and in particular oil, are an important source of civil war.
Alireza Naghavi, Kjetil Bjorvatn
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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites [PDF]
Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal a striking variation across world regions.
Alireza Naghavi +2 more
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Measuring bank capital requirements through Dynamic Factor analysis [PDF]
In this paper, using industry sector stock returns as proxies of firm asset values, we obtain bank capital requirements (through the cycle). This is achieved by Montecarlo simulation of a bank loan portfolio loss density.
Andrea Cipollini, Giuseppe Missaglia
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