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Italy surprisingly out of balance?

Wirtschaftliche Freiheit – Das ordnungspolitische Journal

02/2019

Klaus Schrader

In Italy, the year 2018 ended with a renewed shrinking of the gross domestic product. ...

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Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo

NBER Working Paper

02/2019

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Josefin Meyer , Carmen M. Reinhart , Christoph Trebesch

This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 220,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency...

Rajeev Goel , James W. Saunoris , Friedrich Schneider

Using data over 1870–2014, this paper provides a long-term analysis of the determinants of the U.S. shadow economy. Results show that...

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