productivity trends for the consistency of the Maastricht convergence criteria an for the differences in nation inflation rates …Inflation has fallen dramatically in countries like Spain and Italy over the last decade, but the rate of increase in … that this discrepancy can be explained (at least in part) by trends in productivity; average labour productivity has grown …

restructuring and defaults; in the United Kingdom inflation has dominated, eroding the value of debt; and in Ireland and Spain the …

realistic parameter values, the model generates a blip in inflation of the same magnitude observed in the data"--Federal Reserve …

productivity differentials (internal equilibrium). Empirical implementation of the model suggests that the initial real … appreciation of the peso, between 1990 and 1993, was consistent with the productivity increases that Argentina enjoyed following …

methodology of Alberola et al (1999-2002), we show that the stock of net foreign assets and the evolution of productivity are the …