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Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the informationʺ and communicationʺ components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If...
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We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade...
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The paper evaluates current account dynamics in countries with different exchange rate regimes within the EU. In this, the empirical analysis explicitly differentiates between countries with a flexible and a fixed exchange rate regime and members of a monetary union. In addition, we model the...
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We assess to what extent wage inflation policies in Germany could contribute to an economic rebalancing in the euro … and output in Germany and the rest of the euro area. The duration of constant interest rates and expectations about the … consists of Germany, the rest of the euro area, and the rest of the world. …
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We study how households adjust their medium-term inflation expectations under the new ECB strategy. We find that survey respondents make little difference between the previous strategy of targeting inflation rates close to but below 2% and the new strategy with a symmetric 2% target. Yet,...
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Germany and the rest of the euro area. Using data from the German component of Eurosystem's real-time gross settlement system …
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commercial banks to the Eurosystem's open market operations in conjunction with the redistribution of liquidity via the TARGET …
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