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Pension and medicost reform - averting the demoghaphic/fiscal demise
Kotlikoff, Laurence - In: CESifo Forum 6 (2005) 4, pp. 37-41
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998739
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U.S.-Europe Economic Interdependence and Policy Transmission
Ghironi, Fabio - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2000
This paper proposes a microfounded general equilibrium model of the U.S. and European economies suitable for analyzing the transmission of monetary and fiscal policy shocks between the U.S. and Europe. The focus is on understanding the determinants of transatlantic economic interdependence. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005074196
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On the Sources and Consequences of Oil Price Shocks; The Role of Storage
Unalmis, Deren; Unalmis, Ibrahim; Unsal, D. Filiz - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
Building on recent work on the role of speculation and inventories in oil markets, we embed a competitive oil storage model within a DSGE model of the U.S. economy. This enables us to formally analyze the impact of a (speculative) storage demand shock and to assess how the effects of various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242253
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United States; 2013 Article IV Consultation
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2013
This staff report on United States 2013 Article IV Consultation highlights economic policies and development. The economy grew at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2013, held down by sharp cuts in public spending, and economic indicators suggest that growth has remained weak...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243005
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United States: 2014 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Press Release
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2014
Focus. The 2014 Article IV Consultation focused on five broad themes to strengthen the recovery and improve the long-term outlook: raising productivity growth and labor force participation, confronting poverty, keeping public debt on a sustained downward path, smoothly managing the exit from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011243914
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External Linkages and Policy Constraints in Saudi Arabia
Westelius, Niklas J - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The constraints that external linkages impose on domestic policy choices in Saudi Arabia have continuously evolved over the past four decades. This paper argues that two major ongoing developments in particular have affected and will continue to affect policy trade-offs. First, growing oil needs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142130
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Containment and Resolution in the Financial Crisis: Too Little, Too Late
Honohan, Patrick - In: CESifo Forum 9 (2008) 4, pp. 22-27
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013175
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ESTIMATION OF VECTOR ERROR CORRECTION MODEL WITH GARCH ERRORS: MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND APPLICATIONS
Setiawan, Kusdhianto; Maekawa, Koichi - EcoMod Network - 2014
The standard vector error correction (VEC) model assumes the iid normal distribution of disturbance term in the model. This paper extends this assumption to include GARCH process. We call this model as VEC-GARCH model. However as the number of parameters in a VEC-GARCH model is large, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886654
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Singapore and the United States
Ng, Irene YH; Shen, Xiaoyi; Ho, Kong Weng - Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University - 2008
This study compared intergenerational earnings mobility in Singapore and the United States by replicating the … limitations in the Singapore National Youth Survey on the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The mean estimated earnings … elasticities are almost identical: 0.26 in Singapore and 0.27 in the United States. Transformed to 0.45 and 0.47 respectively to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534216
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Tommy Koh and the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement: A Multi-Front “Negotiation Campaign”
Green, Laurence A.; Sebenius, James K - Harvard Business School, Harvard University - 2014
traditional approaches that focus on a specific negotiation as the unit of analysis. The efforts of Singapore Ambassador …-At-Large Tommy Koh to negotiate the United States-Singapore Free Trade agreement serve as an extended case study of a complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099881