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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective

Laidler, David E. W. - 2002

,rather than exchange rate regimes and questions of policy credibility and political accountability are crucial. Canada's recent … performance are assessed. The most economically attractive among alternative monetary orders, the adoption by Canada of the US … politically attainable. Intermediate arrangements are unattractive and clearly inferior to Canada's current monetary order. …

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Labor supply and the demand for child care : an intertemporal approach

Minagawa, Junichi (contributor); … - 2006

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Public pensions in the national accounts and public finance targets

Oksanen, Heikki - 2004

Preparations are underway to revise national accounting to implement actuarial recording of pension liabilities for corporations and government as an employer. This paper extends this to unfunded public pensions with the help of "implicit tax" in pension contributions. The clearest advantages of...

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Understanding PRC investment statistics

Holz, Carsten A. - 2020

Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...

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READ-GER: Introducing German Real-Time Regional Accounts Data for Revision Analysis and Nowcasting

Lehmann, Robert - 2023 - This version: March 7, 2023

Accurate real-time macroeconomic data are essential for policy-making and economic nowcasting. In this paper, I introduce a real-time database for German regional economic accounts (READ-GER). The database contains real-time information for nine macroeconomic aggregates and the 16 German states....

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Is the completion of EU single market hindered by VAT evasion?

Gebauer, Andrea; Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2003

The planned movement to the origin principle with the cross-border pre-tax system on a full-scale would lead, ceteris paribus, to changes in VAT revenues in the individual EU countries. For instance, the member countries with trade surpluses and higher VAT rates would be significantly better...

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Green national accounting for welfare and sustainability : a taxonomy of assumptions and results

Asheim, Geir B. - 2002

This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability accounting. I consider five different assumptions that can be imposed independently of each other, producing 32 different combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results...

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A general approach to welfare measurement through national income accounting

Asheim, Geir B.; Buchholz, Wolfgang - 2002

We develop a framework for analyzing national income accounting using a revealed welfare approach that is sufficiently general to cover, e.g., both the standard discounted utilitarian and maximin criteria as special cases. We show that the basic welfare properties of comprehensive national...

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Measurement of value added tax evasion in selected EU countries on the basis of national accounts data

Nam, Chang-woon; Parsche, Rüdiger; Schaden, Barbara - 2001

The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of Single Market has further encouraged firms and households evasive behaviour in paying value added taxes in the EU Member States, whereas such efforts have traditionally been most...

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What do we really know about the transatlantic current account?

Braml, Martin T.; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2019

Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U.S. Department of Commerce claims a consistent U.S. surplus while Eurostat reports the opposite. International transactions are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but the...

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