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Bringing French Public Debt Down: The Options for Fiscal Consolidation

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

France has a track record of persistent general government deficits, partly reflecting pro-cyclical fiscal policies in upswings. This has resulted in a quadrupling of its public debt-to-GDP ratio since the 1970s to above 80% of GDP. Reducing public debt is crucial because a high level of public...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Reaching Market Equilibrium Merely by Bilateral Barters

Flåm, Sjur Didrik - CESifo - 2013

convergence to market equilibrium. It is expedient that some parties have differentiable objectives or make strictly feasible …

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It’s a Big World After All

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2007

distance. Furthermore, there is little evidence of income convergence. Using various methods and data sets, we show that many …

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A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence

Pesaran, M. Hashem - CESifo - 2004

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs … of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also …-2000. Overall, the results do not support output convergence, and suggest that the findings of convergence clubs in the literature …

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Long Memory in US Real Output per Capita

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 – 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...

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Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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How Efficient is the East German Economy? An Exploration With Micro Data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - CESifo - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

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Structural Reforms and the Enlargement of Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2000

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural refoms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate country. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate country, members of the monetary...

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Structural Reforms and the Enlargement of Monetary Union

Hefeker, Carsten - CESifo - 2003

The paper addresses the question what effects the enlargement of a monetary union will have on necessary structural reforms in the (low distortion) member countries and the (high distortion) candidate countries. While monetary union lowers reforms in the candidate countries, members of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405838