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and inflation in the member countries. Stress in a country is defined as the difference between the country's actual short …
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In this paper we use a transparent statistical methodology – synthetic control methods – to implement data-driven comparative studies about the impact of autocratic transition on real per capita GDP. The applied methodology compares the growth of countries that experienced a transition to...
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Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
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economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …
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We investigate the international linkages of inflation uncertainty in the G7. In a first step, we document that … inflation uncertainty in the G7 is intertwined. Moreover, the degree of synchronization has increased during the recent two … international shock that drives national inflation uncertainty and which is closely related to oil and commodity price uncertainty …
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This paper evaluates whether macroeconomic uncertainty changes the impact of oil shocks on the oil price. Using a … structural threshold VAR model, we endogenously identify different regimes of uncertainty in which we estimate the effects of oil … demand and supply shocks. The results show that higher macroeconomic uncertainty, as measured by higher world industrial …
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This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the … inflation uncertainty have declined steadily since the inception of EMU, whilst short-run uncertainty has increased, mainly … inflation uncertainty by lowering the inflation rate …
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quantifying the impact of uncertainty on macroeconomic dynamics based on the premise that uncertainty causes economic activity to …
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conclusions that arise from the model. In the new model, the level and the variability of inflation is higher than in the Calvo … model with no selection effect. Attempting to lower inflation's variability results in a significant increase output …'s variability, without changing inflation's variability much …
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inflation and output can easily be explained in the context that agents do not have rational expectation. This important feature … correlated exogenous shocks to account for the high serial correlation in inflation and output while the behavioral model … strong force in producing the serial correlation in inflation and output …
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