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Online Pricing and the Euro Changeover: Cross-Country Comparisons
... Our analysis is based on a dataset that has several features that distinguish it from the extant literature. 3 We collected firm and price information from the Kelkoo sites in the seven EU countries: four in the Eurozone ...
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Nonlinearities in intergenerational earnings mobility : consequences for cross country comparisons
... result, cross-country comparisons of intergenerational earnings elasticities may be misleading with respect to transmission mechanisms in the central parts of the earnings distribution, and ...
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Cross Country Comparisons of Competition and Pricing Power in European Banking
... the time would these measures contain the same information for assessing market competition. These and other results detailed in the text suggest that cross-country comparisons of banking competition ...
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Italian interlocking directorates: structure, evolution and cross-country comparisons
... Interlocking directorates have historically represented an important characteristic of the Italian corporate network. Pyramidal groups and low developed capital markets have fostered this phenomenon. Nevertheless, the ...
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Using Simple Cross country Comparisons to Guide Measurement: Poverty in the CFA Franc Zone
... Simple comparisons of poverty lev- els between countries can, and have actually been used to suggest changes in methodologies for mea- suring poverty at the country level in the CFA franc ...simple ...
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Income Inequality in America: Conclusions from 100 years of income tax data and cross-country comparisons
... from cross-country regression analysis and that there are measurement limitations in comparing inequality across time and countries” (IMF 2015), this paper simply looks at general trends in inequality and ...
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Cross country comparisons of pensioners’ incomes
... international comparisons, since European governments, for example, collect a much bigger portion of revenues from indirect taxes than countries without a value-added tax, such as the United ...
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Cross-country comparisons of pensioners’ incomes
... international comparisons, since European governments, for example, collect a much bigger portion of revenues from indirect taxes than countries without a value-added tax, such as the United ...
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Fiscal transparency: cross-country comparisons
... In economic literature the essence of fiscal transparency was often considered in works of such domestic and foreign scholars as N. Zachosova, D. Kutsenko, M. Hvesyk, A. Sunduk and O. Dobrianskyi, S. Kim, N. Hryshchenko, ...
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On the meaning and measurement of redistribution in cross-country comparisons
... These results signify that the choice of index for redistribution is important. Also, relationships between countries’ common-base redistributional efforts for the personal income tax and their pre-tax income inequality ...
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Cross-country comparisons of student stress source
... Abstract— This study investigated level and sources of stress among university students in the districts of Taiwan, NZ, and USA. The study was a cross sectional survey and the population comprised convenient ...
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Conceptual Referent for Happiness: Cross-Country Comparisons
... On average, Cubans agree with enjoyment, fulfilment and satisfaction conceptions. They tend to disagree with the tranquillity and stoicism conceptions. Thus, on average, outer-oriented conceptions for happiness dominate ...
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Outline Pricing and the Euro Changeover: Cross-Country Comparisons
... Spain and the Netherlands, showed declines of 10.1% and 1.7%, respectively. The upshot is that by May minimum prices inside the Eurozone tended to be higher than those outside it. Thus, price dispersion for similar ...
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ICT and Cross-Country Comparisons: a Proposal of a New Composite Index
... The third section examines the available mea- surements of ICT diffusion in the international scenario in order to identify the main criteria used by researchers to build composite indexes and to distinguish their ...
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Determinants of the loan loss allowance: some cross-country comparisons
... This paper extends a small empirical literature on accounting for impaired loans by non-US banks by including an important determinant, non-performing loans, and by comparing non-US banks with those in the US. Banks in ...
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Cross-country comparisons of student achievement: the role of social values
... graduate. Widespread social values are part of the context-level factors that have what Creemers and Kyriakides (2008, p. 140) call the “ability to increase opportunities for learning and develop positive values for ...
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2006 Global hunger index: a basis for cross-country comparisons
... Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with a long history of political crises, violence, and bad governance. For several countries in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Figure 2e), the ...
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The Market's View on the Probability of Banking Sector Failure: Cross-Country Comparisons
... Although structural measures taken by the government to prevent crises from appearing in the banking sector are important, they are not always sufficient. If a crisis hits despite the government’s attempts, standing ready ...
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Bank-based and market-based financial systems - cross-country comparisons
... The Bank Credit vs Trading measure of financial structure will be larger in countries where banks are actively engaged in funneling credit to the private sector relative to the value of[r] ...
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EQUITY INTHE FINANCEAND DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE: SOME TENTATIVE CROSS-COUNTRY COMPARISONS
... We prefer the Household Expenditure Survey for three reasons: (i) it contains more reliable estimates of health care expenditures (direct payments, and sick fund and private insurance pr[r] ...
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