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Using the Reserve Bank of Australia's MARTIN model we compare actual monetary policy decisions to a counterfactual in …
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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to unemployment dynamics in Australia is found to be much milder and substantially lower than that of monetary policy …We develop uncertainty indices for the United States and Australia based on freely accessible, real time Google Trends … significant contribution to unemployment dynamics by GTU shocks in the United States. Differently, the contribution of GTU shocks …
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We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber's suggestion that Protestantism...
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We analyze the effect of state visits by the Catholic pope on human rights in the host country to understand how a small theocracy like the Vatican can exert disproportionate political influence in international politics. Our theoretical model of the strategic interaction between the Catholic...
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affect inflation. Likewise, the interaction between central bank independence and coordination does not affect unemployment. …
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Using an intertemporal model of saving and capital accumulation with two types of agents (workers and capitalists) we demonstrate that it is impossible for any binding minimum wage to increase the after-tax incomes of workers if the production function is Cobb-Douglas with constant returns to...
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play an important role in explaining the lackluster German economic performance of which rising unemployment is only one …
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The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990 s from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then … this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to normal levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in …
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In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …
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