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The Great Inflation and Early Disinflation in Japan and Germany

Nelson, Edward - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper considers the Great Inflation of the 1970s in Japan and Germany. From 1975 onward these countries had low inflation relative to other large economies. Traditionally, this success is attributed to stronger discipline on the part of Japan and Germany’s monetary authorities - for...

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Who Benefits from Regional Trade Agreements? The View from the Stock Market

Moser, Christoph; Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The effects of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) are disputed. In this paper, we assess these effects using capital market data and an event-study approach, using a daily data set covering a thousand announcements spanning over eighty economies and a hundred RTAs over twenty recent years. We...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

Given its signiÖcance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper o§ers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics. We fully characterize optimal tax parameters for the cases in which budget sets are convex...

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Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists

Krueger, Dirk; Perri, Fabrizio; Pistaferri, Luigi; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … and the cyclical fluctuations in income inequality. The rise in income inequality was stronger at the bottom of the … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …

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Women's Relative Earnings Under Enterprise Bargaining.

Stephen, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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Immigration and Australia's population in the 21st Century. Household Saving, Immigration and the Current Account.

Taslim, M.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

There is some concern that immigration contributes to a larger current account deficit in a net borrowing country like Australia. The reason is believed to be that the immigrants on balance have a lower net saving than those born in the country.

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Macroeconomic Policy Issues of the 1990s.

Pitchford, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1992

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE AUSTRALIAN CONSENSUAL INCOMES POLICY: THE PRICES AND INCOMES ACCORD.

CHAPMAN, B.J.; GRUEN, F. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1990

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On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base.

Castles, F.G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and …

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