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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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The Political Economy of Fiscal Consolidation in Japan
Ihori, Toshihiro - 2015
This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special … emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012401959
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Money, Stock Prices and Central Banks : A Cointegrated VAR Analysis
Wiedmann, Marcel - 2011
whether liquidity conditions play an important role in stock market developments. As an innovation, liquidity conditions enter … flows, which represent the share of global liquidity that arrives in the respective country. A second aim is to understand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015328
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Policy mix and debt sustainability : evidence from fiscal policy rules
Claeys, Peter (contributor) - 2005
This paper characterises rules-based fiscal policy setting. Basically, we translate a standard monetary policy rule into a simple fiscal policy rule. We then infer on fiscal policymakers' reaction coefficients by testing the rule with GMM. Interaction is also tested directly by the inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002578199
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Japan’s Lost Decade : Lessons for Asian Economies
Yoshino, Naoyuki (ed.); Taghizadeh-Hesary, Farhad (ed.) - 2017
caught in a liquidity trap. This book argues that Japan’s economic stagnation stems from a vertical “investment-saving” (IS …This book discusses Japan’s long-term economic recession and provides remedies for that recession that are useful for … other Asian economies. The book addresses why Japan’s economy has stagnated since the bursting of its economic bubble in the …
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Labor market institutions, fiscal multipliers, and macroeconomic volatility
Boeck, Maximilian; Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Glocker, … - 2022
We study empirically how various labor market institutions - (i) union density, (ii) unemployment benefit remuneration, and (iii) employment protection - shape fiscal multipliers and output volatility. Our theoretical model highlights that more stringent labor market institutions attenuate both...
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
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Can central banks do the unpleasant job that governments should do?
Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; … - 2023
We investigate what happens when the fiscal authorities do not react to rising public debt so that the unpleasant task of fiscal sustainability falls upon the Central Bank (CB). In particular, we explore whether the CB's bond purchases in the secondary market can restore stability and...
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Optimal fiscal action in an economy with sovereign Premia and without monetary independence : an application to Italy
Philippopulos, Apostolēs; Varthalitis, Petros; … - 2013
We welfare rank various tax-spending policies. The setup is a New Keynesian model of a semi-small open economy featuring sovereign risk premia and loss of monetary policy independence. The model is calibrated to match data from the Italian economy 2001-2011. We compute various optimized...
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Fiscal divergence and current account imbalances in Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013
Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System diverging current account positions in Europe have prevailed. While the Southern and Western European countries have tended to run current account deficits, the current accounts of the Central and Northern European countries, in particular Germany,...
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