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Prospects for Output and Employment Growth with Steady Inflation
Dungey, M.; Pitchford, J. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998
Monetary policy affects both real variables, such as employment, unemployment and output and nominal variables such as nominal interest and inflation rates. For close to a decade the principal focus of monetary policy has been on inflation. During a recession, or when one appears imminent, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971339
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Adjustment and Performance of the Textile and Clothing Industry in the Czech Republic, Poland and Portugal
Benacek, Vladimir; Caban, Wieslaw; Corado, Cristina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
contribution of the new, private firms in the Czech Republic to find that production and employment in the clothing industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136480
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Inattentive Producers
Reis, Ricardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
I present and solve the problem of a producer who faces costs of acquiring, absorbing, and processing information. I establish a series of theoretical results describing the producer's behaviour. First, I find the conditions under which she prefers to set a plan for the price she charges, or...
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A Search Model of Optimal Pricing and Production
Alpern, Steve; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
and production decisions. We show how this methodology can be used to determine an optimal sequence of price …. We compare and contrast the high-low model with the conventional microeconomic model of pricing and production. We show … how the firm uses its pricing and production decisions to partition the uncertainty interval it faces and thereby …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656333
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding
Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
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Rural–Urban Migration in Indonesia: Survey Design and Implementation
Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Yamauchi, Chikako; Effendi, Tadjuddin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009
This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511766
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Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …
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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530383
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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning About Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population.
Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971349