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Belgium has effected a remarkable fiscal adjustment, best illustrated by the decline in its public debt. While benefiting from an appreciable decline in interest rates, most of the underlying consolidation reflected a considerable increase in the tax burden, one of the highest in the...
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by reducing real wages below levels allowed by technological growth, changes in the unemployment rate, and institutional …
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From its early post-war catch-up phase, Germany’s formidable export engine has been its consistent driver of growth. But Germany has almost equally consistently run current account surpluses. Exports have powered the dynamic phases and helped emerge from stagnation. Volatile external...
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The U.S. labor force participation rate (LFPR) fell dramatically following the Great Recession and has yet to start recovering. A key question is how much of the post-2007 decline is reversible, something which is central to the policy debate. The key finding of this paper is that while around...
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We study the role of uncertainty shocks in explaining unemployment dynamics, separating out the role of aggregate and … measure aggregate and sectoral uncertainty and compare their effects on the unemployment rate in a standard macroeconomic … vector autoregressive (VAR) model. We find that aggregate uncertainty leads to an immediate increase in unemployment, with …
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The synchronized disinflation across Europe since end-2011 raises the question of whether non-euro area EU countries are affected by the undershooting of the euro area inflation target. To shed light on this issue, we estimate an open-economy, New Keynsian Phillips curve, in which we control for...
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This paper discusses findings of the Report on Observance of Standards and codes for Denmark. Denmark has a high level …
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years. In particular, it examines the experiences of Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Spain—four countries in which … similarities, but also important differences. Shocks to house prices, unemployment, and bank balance sheets were most severe in …
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Denmark’s public expenditure as a share of GDP is the highest in the OECD. The main difference between Denmark and … the median OECD country is the larger amount of social protection expenditure. The public health expenditure of Denmark is …
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This paper discusses findings and recommendations made in the Financial Sector Assessment Program Update for Denmark in …
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