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Certain areas related to the topics under discussion here lie outside my field; for instance the evaluation of risk assessment and security deficiencies in the transport sector. What has convinced me of the importance of this subject are a few very general conclusions, indeed I would say,...
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This paper explores the evolution of OECD imports over time and as a function of income levels, measuring the concentration of those imports across origin countries at the product level. We find evidence of diversification followed, in the very last years of the sample period (post-2000), by a...
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We propose a method for estimating hurdle rates for firms' investments in pollution abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value model where the future price of polluting fuel is the major source of uncertainty facing the firm. The econometric...
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Since the energy markets liberalisation at the beginning of the 1990s in Europe, electricity monopolies have gone through a profound evolution process. From an industrial organisation point of view, they lost their monopoly on their historical business, but gained the capacity to develop in any...
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inflation, both as an objective and as an intermediate instrument. We want to show that other variables like employment can be … that they can be function of employment only, which then dominates inflation for use in the policy rule. …
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should respond more than one for one to inflation. This model yields explicit solutions for the optimal rule. We find that … underlying shocks, or which measure of inflation is used. In general the optimal elasticity of the interest rate with respect to … inflation needs not be greater than one. …
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Le passage à l'Union économique et monétaire dans la mesure où chaque pays demeure souverain n'a pas d'équivalent dans l'histoire. La banque centrale européenne a donc dû mettre en place une coopération efficace avec les banques centrales nationales dans un contexte institutionnel et...
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In the late 90's, after severe financial and economic crisis, accompanied by inflation and exchange rate instability …, Eastern Europe emerged into two groups of countries with radically contrasting monetary regimes (Currency Boards and Inflation … relationship between inflation, output growth, nominal and real uncertainties from 2000 till now. In other words, we test the …
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This paper o¤ers to investigate both the Friedman's and Mishkin's hypotheses on the consequences of inflation on output … countries, we distinguish between short-medium and long run and between headline and core inflation. We get two main results …. First, nominal uncertainty and inflation are positively linked. Second, headline inflation negatively Granger causes out …
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Book review: Liêm Hoang-Ngoc "Le fabuleux destin de la courbe de Phillips. Les théories de l'inflation et du chômage …
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