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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367975
I examine the effects of fiscal policy actions on private consumption in a yearly panel of sixteen OECD countries conditional on the phase of the business cycle and the state of the public finances. I demonstrate that binding liquidity constraints on households can alter the efficacy of the...
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Fiscal policy is particularly relevant in dollarized economies. For the case of Ecuador, we analyze the effects of taxes and public spending on the overall performance of the economy for the period 1993-2009. To do this, we use a structural autoregressive vector model (SVAR) incorporating the...
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This paper constructs a narrative account of all legislated discretionary policy changes in the United Kingdom from 1945 to 2009. Following Romer and Romer (2009, 2010), evidence of the policymakers’ motivation is presented from U.K. official Budget documents together with technical notes,...
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This paper investigates the transmission mechanism of government spending shocks in an estimated dynamic general equilibrium model. I construct a New Keynesian model with distortionary labour and capital taxes and with references that allow the wealth effect on labour supply to vary in strength....
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The paper studies the short run and long run effects of a production subsidy to the tourism sector of a small open economy, which can also be thought as a region within a country. We introduce a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model where the tourism sector is considered to be...
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is a potentially important source of inflation in Ghana. Using variance decomposition analyses, it is found that monetary … policy implication of these findings is that policies that aim at lowering inflation must focus on monetary and exchange rate …
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This paper provides an empirical study of the asymmetrical spillovers of the euro-US dollar exchange rate on inflation … the only key factor, in determining the asymmetry in inflation between core and periphery. The nominal effective exchange … rate instead is a very important driver for the inflation only considering the whole euro zone. Therefore, the EMU seems to …
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unstable external and internal values. The most evident one is the reduction of a long-term inflation rate. The objective of … regions and of different development levels. The results suggest that the monetary integration influences the inflation …
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