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Markov or not Markov - this should be a question

Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001

Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence, imposes some very restrictive assumptions upon the data generating process, these assumptions have generally been taken for granted so far. The present paper proposes, resp. recalls...

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Investigating the impact of an appreciation of the euro in a small macroeconometric model of Germany and the euro area

Meier, Carsten-Patrick - 2004

analyzed in combination with the situation in the rest of the euro area. To take this into account, a small macroeconometric … model is constructed that models the euro area as consisting of two regions, Germany and the rest of the euro area. The rest … monetary policy or of exchange rate changes on economic activity in Germany and the euro area. …

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Euroland's trade with the rest of the world: An SNA-based estimation

Strauß, Hubert - 1998

The paper presents an estimation of Euroland's foreign trade with the rest of the world based on the exports and … - using an error correction model. The estimation results are used to forecast Euroland's exports in 1998 and 1999. …

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Konjunkturschwankungen in den asiatischen NICs und in ausgewählten Industrieländern: Synchronisation oder Divergenz?

Fels, Joachim - 1988

Die stärkste Dynamik in der Weltwirtschaft entfaltet derzeit die asiatisch-pazifische Region. Besonders kräftig wachsen dort die vier Schwellenländer Südkorea, Taiwan, Hongkong und Singapur, die im folgenden als asiatische NICs (für Newly Industrializing Countries) bezeichnet werden. Sie...

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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity

Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009

During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....

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Surviving the crisis: Foreign multinationals vs domestic firms

Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2011

Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...

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Globalization, pass-through and inflation dynamic

Benigno, Pierpaolo; Faia, Ester - 2010

An important aspect of the globalization process is the increase in interdependence among countries through the deepening of trade linkages. This process should increase competition in each destination market and change the pricing behavior of firms. We present an extension of Dornbusch (1987)'s...

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What can a New Keynesian labor matching model match?

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2009

A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success. However, it cannot explain much of the behavior of employment, vacancies, and job flows in postwar US data without resorting to additional shocks beyond monetary policy and...

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New evidence, old puzzles: technology shocks and labor market dynamics

Balleer, Almut - 2009

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly interpreted as technology shocks. I estimate different...

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Explaining shifts in the unemployment rate with productivity slowdowns and accelerations: a co-breaking approach

Schreiber, Sven - 2009

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U.S. data in a framework of infrequent mean shifts. Tests find (endogenously dated) shifts around 1974, 1986, and 1996, system techniques indicate that the shifts are common...

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