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When are Private Standards more Stringent than Public Standards? [PDF]

Retailers’ private standards are increasingly important in addressing consumer concerns about safety, quality and social and environmental issues. Empirical evidence shows that these private standards are frequently more stringent than their public ...
Vandemoortele, Thijs
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Foreign Debt and Fear of Floating: A Theoretical Exploration [PDF]

This paper explores the relationship between the denomination of public debt and the choice of exchange rate regime. Unlike indexed domestic debt, foreign debt is subject to valuation effects from real exchange rate shocks.
F. Gulcin Ozkan, Michael Bleaney
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Mean-Reverting Statistical Arbitrage Strategies in Crude Oil Markets

Risks
In this paper, we introduce the concept of statistical arbitrage through the definition of a mean-reverting trading strategy that captures persistent anomalies in long-run relationships among assets. We model the statistical arbitrage proceeding in three
Viviana Fanelli
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Robust estimates of exporter productivity premia in German business services enterprises

Economic and Business Review, 2011
<p>A large and growing number of micro-econometric studies show that exporting firms are more productive than firms that sell their products on the home market only. This so-called exporter productivity premium qualifies as a stylized fact.
Alexander Vogel, Joachim Wagner
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Technology, Employment, and the Business Cycle: Do Technology Shocks Explain Aggregate Fluctuations? Comment [PDF]

The neoclassical effects of permanent technology shocks on employment is re-investigated. Contrary to Jordi Gali's (1999) assertion published in this Review, I show that standard neoclassical theory is fully capable of explaining the stylized fact that ...
Wen, Yi
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Marriage Migration: Just another case of positive assortative matching? [PDF]

It is a stylized fact that marriage formation generally involves positive assortative matching (PAM) on education. We test whether this is also the case for immigrants who tend to import their spouses and potentially use education as an exchange ...
Celikaksoy, Aycan, Nielsen, Helena Skyt, Verner, Mette   +2 more
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Some stylized facts of Spanish unemployment [PDF]

, 1998
Financial support by the Spanish DGICYT research project PB92-0342.
Díaz Rodríguez, Antonia, Guillo, Maria Dolores   +1 more
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A SURVEY OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LITERATURE OF FINANCE AND GROWTH [PDF]

This paper provides a survey of the recent progress in the literature of financial development and economic growth. The survey highlights that most empirical studies focus on either testing the role of financial development in stimulating economic growth
James B. Ang
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Performative Acts in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford [PDF]

, 2013
Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford presents the lives of Cranford ladies consisting of old maids and widows living in a provincial town, Cranford. This study is aimed at analyzing the performance and performative acts performed by the Cranford ladies.
Nurulhady, Eta Farmacelia
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NATURAL SELECTION AND THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO AN ANCIENT DEBATE

Zygon, 2011
.  Since Darwin, scholars have contemplated what our growing understanding of natural selection, combined with the fact that great suffering occurs, allows us to infer about the possibility that a benevolent God created the universe.
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