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Endogenous growth in an open economy and the real exchange rate

Federici, Daniela; Gandolfo, Giancarlo - 2001

of the euro/dollar real exchange rate. Given this value, one could then give a precise meaning to the notion of … undervaluation or overvaluation of the euro, and calculate its misalignment. The problem however arises of how to assess the …. This of course is not (yet) possible for the euro, so that all the calculations of misalignment of the euro that have been …

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The economic value of cultural diversity : evidence from US cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Estimated general equilibrium models for the evaluation of monetary policy in the US and Europe

Leith, Campbell B.; Malley, James R. - 2002

A persistent criticism of general equilibrium models of monetary policy which incorporate nominal inertia in the form of the New Keynesian Phillips Curce (NKPC) is that they fail to capture the extent of inflation inertia in the data. In this paper we derive a general equilibrium model based on...

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Knowledge flows and knowledge externalities

Peri, Giovanni - 2002

The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining productivity. We first estimate the determinants of...

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Skills' substitutability and technological progress : US states 1950 - 1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - 2003

In this article we estimate the long-run aggregate elasticity of substitution between skilled and unskilled workers. This is an important parameter as it allows us to compute the skill biased technological progress (SBTP) from the evolution of relative wages. However, it is hard to estimate...

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Local human capital externalities : an overlapping generation model and some evidence on experience premia

Peri, Giovanni - 1999

In an interesting and influential paper Robert Lucas (1993) considering the experience of East Asian small economies, suggests that on the job" learning could be the principal engine of their miraculous growth in the last 20 years. In this paper I develop an overlapping generation model where on...

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Economic growth and endogenous fiscal policy : in search of a data consistent general equilibrium model

Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2000

This paper searches for a general equilibrium model of optimal growth and endogenous fiscal policy with the aim of explaining the interaction between private agents and fiscal authorities in the U.S., West Germany, Japan and the U.K. over the period 1960-1996. Our search is conducted in the...

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Vertical product differentiation and the import demand function : theory and evidence

Malley, James R.; Moutos, Thomas - 2000

In this paper we use a model of vertical product differentiation to cast doubt on the general validity of the import demand function as specified in macroeconomic models. The empiricai importance of our theoretical concerns is then examined with the aid of two hypotheses. According to the first...

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A sectoral analysis of price-setting behavior in US manufacturing industries

Leith, Campbell B.; Malley, James R. - 2003

In this paper we develop a multi-sector model of firms' pricing behaviour under imperfect competition. We allow for the fact that some goods sold will be for final consumption, while others will be used as intermediate goods in further production. We assume that price setters are constrained by...

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