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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125734
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The contribution of business services to aggregate productivity growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - EconWPA - 2004
industry in most cases, however, has displayed stagnating productivity growth, in some periods even a fall in productivity …. Does this fast-growing industry with a bad productivity record present a threat to aggregate productivity growth and, hence … its own stagnating productivity growth. Moreover, the industry has not yet exhausted opportunities for tackling existing X …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412877
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Competitiveness and regional growth in the European Union: Disparities in unit labour costs
RODIL-MARZABAL, OSCAR - EconWPA - 2005
high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556182
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Economic Implications of an Ageing Australia
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2005
raising labour force participation and productivity can partly offset the impacts of an ageing population. These would enhance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556842
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Rebuilding the State in Areas Affected by Political Violence: The Case of Rural Communities in Ayacucho, Peru
Velazco, Jackeline - EconWPA - 2004
During the 1980s, the Peruvian society was deeply affected by two significant events: a) the economic crisis that ended in recession and hyperinflation and, b) the spread of political violence, in particular in Ayacucho, in the central Andean highlands. Taking this into account, the conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412495
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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries
Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000
The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076817
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THE ROLE OF GLOBAL RISK AVERSION IN EXPLAINING LATIN AMERICAN SOVEREIGN SPREADS
HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; ORTIZ, ALVARO - EconWPA - 2005
This paper assesses empirically whether global risk aversion (GRA) and some if its determinants (US economic growth and the US long term interest rates) explain developments in Latin American sovereign spreads. We find that GRA is significant and positively related to Latin American sovereign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124937
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La metodología de la investigación en la Economía Aplicada; The Research Methodology in Applied Economics
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2005
Sumario La ciencia económica es un tipo específico de conocimiento dentro de las ciencias sociales. Para lograr realizar un estudio del conocimiento económico de tal naturaleza, o sea, para hacer ciencia económica, es preciso seguir determinados procedimientos que nos permitan realizar un...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126080
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Any Link Between Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation? Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Jácome, Luis; Vázquez, Francisco - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews central bank legislation in 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s. Using panel regressions, the paper finds a negative relationship between legal central bank independence (CBI) and inflation. This result holds for three alternative measures of CBI,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126338
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I processi cumulativi nella crisi del debito degli anni 80: una lettura dai casi di Argentina, Brasile e Messico Cumulative processes in the 1980s debt crisis: an analysis from Arg...
Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003
This paper analyses the 1980s Latin American debt crisis in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and, in particular, the influence of cumulative processes at work in its early and final stages. The paper is organised in three sections. The first examines the crisis<92> features in the three countries, and...</92>
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