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Industrial Policy and Restructuring in Eastern Europe

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

Using input-output and world price data, this study computes domestic resource costs (DRCs) for branches of manufacturing industry in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union. The results show a wide dispersion of DRCs in each country, including branches with...

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Fiscal-Monetary Policy Interactions in the Presence of Unionized Labour Markets

Cukierman, Alex; Dalmazzo, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper develops a framework for studying the interactions between labour unions, fiscal policy, monetary policy and monopolistically competitive firms. The framework is used to investigate the effects of labour taxes, the replacement ratio, labour market institutions and monetary...

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Measuring Competitiveness

Neary, J Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures …

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Green Tax Reform and Competitiveness

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie; Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

and increase the economy's competitiveness. The driving force behind these results is the technological substitution … production and hence increase international competitiveness and output of the economy. …

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Quantifying a Dangerous Obsession? Competitiveness and export performance in an OECD Panel of Industries

Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew J; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper analyses the impact of cost competitiveness and technology on export performance using a very rich panel …

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Spain's Industrial Exports to the EEC: A Panel Data Approach

Martín, Carmela; Moreno, Lourdes - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

This paper investigates the determinants of trends in Spain's industrial exports to other Community countries by using a sectoral panel data approach. Apart from overcoming the bias likely to arise from aggregate trade equations, this procedure is useful in detecting the existence of individual...

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Competitiveness, Wage Adjustment and Macroeconomic Policy in a Small Open Economy

Alogoskoufis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

In this paper I investigate the relationships between wage adjustment, competitiveness, macroeconomic policy and … in the traded goods sector are negatively related with competitiveness. Wage setting is what determines competitiveness …

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Monetary Discipline and Cooperation in the European Monetary System: A Synthesis

Melitz, Jacques - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

improvements in their international competitiveness. For the low-inflation members, moreover, the incentive to disinflate increases …

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Competitiveness and Industrial Restructuring in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland

Hare, Paul G; Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Transition to the market in Eastern Europe will require a great deal of restructuring of production involving the contraction and even closure of certain branches and the expansion of others, including some new ones. In the course of this, many enterprises will have to be shut down....

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Traded Goods, Competitiveness and Aggregate Fluctuations in the United Kingdom

Alogoskoufis, George - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

In this paper I investigate the relationships between wage adjustment, competitiveness, and aggregate fluctuations in … is on the supply side. Competitiveness is defined as the relative price of traded to nontraded goods. The model can … account quite well for fluctuations in UK competitiveness, output, wages and the terms of trade, and is used to examine the …

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