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Real Estate Prices, Borrowing Constraints and Business Cycles -A Study of the Japanese Economy

Chakraborty, Suparna - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the causes of business cycle fluctuations that Japan experienced over the period 1980 to 2000 … as collateral in Japan, land tax changes will cause fluctuations in land price that can potentially affect output and … data of land use in Japan provides evidence of such redistribution. …

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Impact of Market Entry and Exit on EU Productivity and Growth Performance

Cincera, Michele; Galgau, Olivia - EconWPA - 2005

The European Union and its Member States have been engaged in product market reforms over a long period with notable reforms including the Single Market Program and the Lisbon Agenda launched in March 2000. Product market reforms are seen as exerting both a direct and an indirect impact on...

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An Application of Clustering Analysis to International Private Indebtedness

Andre, Monteiro; Dionisio, Carneiro; Carlos, Pedreira - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents a procedure for clustering analysis that combines Kohone’s Self organizing Feature Map (SOFM) and statistical schemes. The idea is to cluster the data in two stages: run SOFM and then minimize the segmentation dispersion. The advantages of proposed procedure will be...

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Leading Indicators of Euroland Business Cycles

Fritsche, Ulrich; Marklein, Felix - EconWPA - 2001

The introduction of a common monetary policy in eleven European countries increased the need for leading indicators for that area. A reliable leading indicator should possess the following properties: (1) The movements in the indicator series should resemble those in the business cycle reference...

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No More Rocking Horses: Trading Business-Cycle Depth for Duration Using an Economy-Specific Characteristic.

Mikhail, Ossama - EconWPA - 2004

Regarding the trade-off between the depth and the duration of recessions, there exists a mounting empirical evidence of the idiosyncratic and non-synchronized behavior of the business cycle over time within and across countries. In this paper, I propose a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium...

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Do probit models help in forecasting turning points of German business cycles?

Fritsche, Ulrich - EconWPA - 2001

In this paper we used a data set constructed for a companion paper (Fritsche/Stephan, 2000) where we explored the leading indicator properties of different time series for the German business cycle. Now we test for the ability of different indicator series to forecast recessions by using a...

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Monetary Policy Effect on the Business Cycle Fluctuations: Output vs. Index Measures of the Cycle

Korenok, Oleg; Radchenko, Stanislav - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes two questions: (i) the effect of a monetary policy shock on the business cycle and (ii) the extent to which a shift in a monetary policy affects the dynamics of business cycle. Unlike previous literature, to answer these questions, we measure cycle movements by calculating an...

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Power Law Tails in the Italian Personal Income Distribution

Clementi, Fabio; Gallegati, Mauro - EconWPA - 2005

We investigate the shape of the Italian personal income distribution using microdata from the Survey on Household Income and Wealth, made publicly available by the Bank of Italy for the years 1977-2002. We find that the upper tail of the distribution is consistent with a Pareto power-law type...

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Narrow Money and the Business Cycle: Theoretical aspects and euro area evdence

Brand, Claus; Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Seitz, Franz - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the information content of M1 for euro area real GDP since the beginning of the 1980s. After a literature review on the empirical results in individual euro area countries we review some theoretical arguments why real narrow money growth might be an important determinant of...

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Harrod, Hansen and Samuelson on the Multiplier-Acceleration Model. A Further Note

Besomi, Daniele - EconWPA - 2005

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