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The conventional view, as expounded by sticky-price models, is that price adjustment determines the PPP reversion rate …. This study examines the mechanism by which PPP deviations are corrected. Nominal exchange rate adjustment, not price …
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We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...
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The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the context of real convergence. For this purpose it extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model by international capital markets. The augmented Balassa-Samuelson model is linked to the...
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Economic shocks often permeate borders generating comovement in nations' business cycles over time. We highlight the fact that fiscal policy coordination is an important avenue by which national economies become more integrated, influencing the transmission of macroeconomic shocks between...
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The European sovereign debt crisis revived the discussion concerning the pros and cons of exchange rate adjustment in the face of asymmetric shocks. Exit from the euro area is to regain rapidly international competitiveness. Exchange rate stability with structural reforms could be beneficial for...
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This study investigates whether greater nominal exchange rate flexibility aids real exchange rate adjustment based on data from dual exchange rates in developing countries. Specifically, we analyze whether the more flexible parallel market rate produces faster real exchange rate adjustment than...
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In a partial equilibrium setting without price uncertainty, the balanced-budget substitution of an ad valorem tax on … competitive market characterised by uncertainty about the commodity price, if firms can respond to the revelation of demand …
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overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …
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What are the dynamic consequences of comprehensive integration shocks? The answer to this question appears all but trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are increasing returns to scale at the aggregate level....
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This paper provides a rationale for subsidizing green (renewable) energy production. Within a multi-country model where energy is produced with mobile capital in green and dirty production, we investigate the countries' decentralized choice of emissions taxes and green energy subsidies. Without...
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