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Does the Recent Success of some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?

Belot, Michèle; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries have experienced a mild increase, other countries have had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also ‘successful’ countries in which the unemployment rate has...

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Political Cycles in OECD Economies

Alesina, Alberto F; Roubini, Nouriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper studies whether the dynamic behaviour of GNP growth, unemployment and inflation is systematically affected by the timing of elections and changes of government. The sample includes the last three decades in 18 OECD economies. We test explicitly the implications of several models of...

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Which International Institutions Promote International Trade?

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

: 1) the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor the Generalized Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); 2) the …

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International Interdependence and Policy Coordination in Economies with Real and Nominal Wage Rigidity

van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The development of the seven main OECD economies during the 1970s and 1980s is discussed. Subsequently, wage equations of the error-correction type for the seven largest OECD economies are estimated. The hypothesis of real wage rigidity cannot be rejected for the French, German, Italian and...

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Economic Freedom in the Long Run: Evidence from OECD Countries (1850-2007

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

-nineteenth century, World War I brought a major setback. The post-war recovery up to 1929 was followed by a dramatic decline in the 1930s … and significant progress took place during the Golden Age but fell short from the pre-World War I peak. A steady expansion …

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Fiscal Adjustment to Cyclical Developments in the OECD: An Empirical Analysis Based on Real-Time Data

Beetsma, Roel; Giuliodori, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We explore how fiscal policies in the OECD have responded to unexpected information about the economy during the period 1995-2006. In particular, we first estimate standard fiscal rules using ex-ante data (i.e. forecasts). We then estimate how fiscal policy reacts to new information, especially...

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Estimating Loss Function Parameters

Elliott, Graham; Komunjer, Ivana; Timmermann, Allan G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In situations where a sequence of forecasts is observed, a common strategy is to examine ‘rationality’ conditional on a given loss function. We examine this from a different perspective - supposing that we have a family of loss functions indexed by unknown shape parameters, then given the...

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?

de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists …, by allowing clean countries to become net importers of emissions, leads to a 10% increase in world emissions with respect … emissions related to transport are of smaller magnitude, roughly 3% in both periods. In a third exercise, we use linear …

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Integration in the English wheat market 1770-1820

Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

factors – in terms of transport and information – explain behaviour of different components. Previous analyses should be …

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...

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