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productivity for the differences in regional inflation under a common currency. Comparisons are made with regional productivity …While overall inflation has fallen dramatically in countries like Italy and Spain, inflation in the home good sector … remains stubbornly higher than inflation in the traded good sector. If nominal exchange rates are fixed, these real …
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Since 1979 productivity growth in Britain has improved markedly compared with Europe. The turnaround in productivity … has been a worsening in the trade-off between unemployment and inflation. The poor unemployment/inflation trade-off is due … (which does little to restrain inflation). …
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We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … productivity. In response to an increase in openness, markups show a steep short run decline, which partly reverses later, while … productivity rises in a manner that increases over time. Our estimates suggest that EU manufacturing prices fell by 2 …
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This paper explores the interrelation between the degree of unemployment persistence and the unemployment-productivity …
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errors of returns under serial correlation. The repeat sales methodology is generally used to construct an index of prices or …
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We study the determination of Irish inflation between 1926 and 2012. The difference between unemployment and the NAIRU … is a significant determinant of inflation in a simple backward-looking Phillips Curve that incorporates import prices …
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This paper presents a theory of the monetary transmission mechanism in a monetary version of Farmer’s (2009) model in which there are multiple equilibrium unemployment rates. The model has two equations in common with the new-Keynesian model; the optimizing IS curve and the policy rule. It...
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Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by financial institutions. We argue that tax policy is the driving force. Using long time-series from eight countries, we show that the fraction of household ownership decreases with...
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complex dynamic inter-relationships between the main components of the Harmonized Index of Consumer Price (HICP) and their … accurate forecasts. We use the model to study the pass-through of an oil shock and to study the evolution of inflation during …
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The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...
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