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Ageing and Productivity Growth : Are There Macro-Level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?
Werding, Martin - 2021
demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …
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Growth and the Ageing Joneses
Fisher, Walter H.; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2021
We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...
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Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by 'Inventing' Fertility Restriction?
Edwards, Jeremy - 2018
Voigtländer and Voth argue that the Black Death shifted England towards pastoral agriculture, increasing wages for unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this argument does not hold. Its crucial assumption is...
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World-Trade Growth Accounting
Egger, Peter H. - 2016
into their direct (endowment accumulation, productivity growth, changes in trade costs, changing preferences) and indirect … productivity growth, and endogenous changes in expenditures shares on manufacturing goods and services. We quantify the importance … accumulation and trade costs have been the most important drivers of trade in the sample at hand, whereas productivity growth and …
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Demographic Structure and Macroeconomic Trends
Aksoy, Yunus; Basso, Henrique S.; Smith, Ron; Grasl, Tobias - 2021
The effect of changes in demographic structure on medium-run trends of key macroeconomic variables is estimated using a Panel VAR of 21 OECD economies. The panel data variability assists the identification of direct effects of demographics, while the dynamic structure uncovers long-term effects....
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Productive Government Expenditure and Economic Growth
Irmen, Andreas; Kuehnel, Johanna - 2021
We provide a comprehensive survey of the recent literature on the link between productive government expenditure and economic growth. Starting with the seminal paper of Robert Barro (1990) we show that an understanding of the core results of the ensuing contributions can be gained from the study...
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House Prices and Macroprudential Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model of New Zealand
Funke, Michael - 2017
We analyse the effects of macroprudential and monetary policies and their interactions using an estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model tailored to New Zealand. We find that the main historical drivers of house prices are shocks specific to the housing sector. While our...
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Forward Guidance Contracts
Gersbach, Hans - 2015
We examine “Forward Guidance Contracts”, which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a flexible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity...
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Measuring the Impact of Insurance on Urban Recovery with Light : The 2010-2011 New Zealand Earthquakes
Cuong, Nguyen Van - 2018
We measure the longer-term effect of a major earthquake on the local economy, using night-time light intensity measured from space, and investigate whether insurance claim payments for damaged residential property affected the local recovery process. We focus on the destructive Canterbury...
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Banking Crisis Resolution Policy - Lessons from Recent Experience - Which Elements are Needed for Robust and Efficient Crisis Resolution?
Mayes, David G. - 2013
The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...
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