Showing 1 - 10 of 264
, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Together, these agreements provide a total of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408897
This cross-country paper explains differences in external sector performance among four large euro area countries—France …, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The paper discusses that during 2001–04, the performance of the external sector differed markedly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014407076
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404605
In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014405136
We analyze labor market models where the law of one price does not hold-that is, models with equilibrium wage dispersion. We begin by assuming workers are ex ante heterogeneous, and highlight a flaw with this approach: if search is costly, the market shuts down. We then assume workers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400958
Search models with posting and match-specific heterogeneity generate wage dispersion. Given K values for the match-specific variable, it is known that there are K reservation wages that could be posted, but generically never more than two actually are posted in equilibrium. What is unknown is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402407
Using Chilean data, we document that for resource-rich small open economies the effects of terms of trade shocks on the wage gap (between skilled and unskilled workers) depend on factor intensities in the non-tradable sector, following the model in Galiani, Heymann, and Magud (2010). For a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403224
Spain (Spain), amendments to the 2010 NPA with the Government of Japan (Japan), and a new note purchase agreement (NPA) with … the People's Bank of China (China). The new borrowing agreement with Spain, the amendments to the NPA with Japan, and the … February 22, 2017, for Spain; April 20, 2017, for Japan; and April 21, 2017, for China. Pursuant to Section III, paragraph 2 of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408739
This 2001 Article IV Consultation highlights that the economy of Spain grew by more than 4 percent annually during 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014406337
Spain has achieved impressive growth in recent years—reflecting favorable competitiveness, and the impact on interest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402845