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unemployment within national economies. Our approach is original as Okun's coefficients are estimated for each of the 22 … significant are identified, and policies to reduce unemployment in French regions are examined. …
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According to the literature, in an expectations-augmented Phillips curve model, opacity is always preferred to transparency on central bank forecasts. By modelling the private sector's behavior explicitly, we show that transparency reduces the shocks. Consequently, transparency can be preferred.
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The present paper examines the meaning and usefulness of the concept of a New Economy. This construct, which first began to appear in the media in the mid-1990s, is utilised today with a variety of definitions and intentions. Having identified three possible denotations or orientations relating...
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determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …
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We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions on unemployment. Using a data set of 18 … market variables (labour market regulation, union density, coordination in wage bargaining) to unemployment are a ffected by … estimation. In Australia, Belgium, Italy, Japan and Spain, accounting for financial indicators mitigates the bene fits of labour …
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formation of a deflationary spiral. Aggregate activity decreases and the unemployment increases. The macroeconomic stability of …
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This paper aims to provide an alternative framework to previous studies of deflation in Japan. We focus on the real …
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fuels a financial inflation driven by "rational exuberance", whose burst leads to a global crash in the next period, 3) else … a significant inflation of commodity prices accompanies the functioning of markets. In particular, neither Friedman …
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, fueling a financial bubble whose bursting leads to debt-deflation in the next period with a non-zero probability. This dilemma … Fisher's debt deflation theory as being distinct from Keynes' liquidity trap. …
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In this paper we investigate the impact of financial globalization on the behaviour of inflation targeting emerging … data for six emerging market inflation targeting economies from the date of their inflation targeting adoption to 2009 Q4 … should not be so as even under flexible inflation targeting central bank responds to inflation deviation and output gap; we …
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