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Theoretical models point at various channels of the impact of inflation on corporate investment. This article attempts … corporate investment and inflation on the sample of 21 OECD countries in the years 1960-2005. The obtained negative relationship … relationship: marginal effect on corporate investment is higher at inflation rates between 3 and 5.5 per cent. These results …
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This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly hours worked introduced in the recent Spanish labour market reform (the 2012 reform). A crucial aspect of the model will be the extent to which firms will be able to choose the...
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constraints and labour constraints. It notes the failure to incorporate this phenomenon in standard macro models. Using panel data …
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This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation wages, offered wages decline considerably with...
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-static reservation wages using panel data from Germany from 1987 to 1998. The results suggest that reservation wages are relatively high …
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with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the … interest rate bound, interest rates and monetary aggregates provided a misleading indicator as to the true stance of inflation …
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Currently, many monetary and fiscal policy measures are aimed at preventing the financial market meltdown that started in the US subprime sector and has spread worldwide as a great recession. Although some slow recovery appears to be on the horizon, it is worthwhile exploring the fragility and...
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This paper seeks to understand dynamics of inflation and marginal cost (labor share) in models that account for the … productivity growth particularly for the US. We conclude that a better understanding of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff …
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rate of inflation is relatively high, as was the case in the 1970s. In general, the effect of growth on unemployment is … shown to be non-monotonic. There is a threshold level of inflation below (above) which faster growth leads to higher (lower …
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The conventional wisdom that inflation and unemployment are unrelated in the long-run implies the compartmentalisation … of macroeconomics. While one branch of the literature models inflation dynamics and estimates the unemployment rate … compatible with inflation stability, another one determines the real economic factors that drive the natural rate of unemployment …
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