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Measuring Monetary Policy
Bernanke, Ben; Mihov, Ilian - 2021
Extending the approach of Bernanke and Blinder (1992), Strongin (1992), and Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (1994a, 1994b), we develop and apply a VAR-based methodology for measuring the stance of monetary policy. More specifically, we develop a 'semi-structural' VAR approach, which extracts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218416
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Hendren, Nathaniel; Sprung-Keyser, Benjamin - 2021
We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers. For each policy, we use existing causal estimates to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224352
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Job competition and the wage curve
Longhi, Simonetta - 2010
wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941443
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Do market pressures induce economic efficiency : the case of Slovenian manufacturing, 1994 - 2001
Orazem, Peter F. (contributor); Vodopivec, Milan (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800163
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
Casey, Brendan; Gray, Wayne B.; Linn, Joshua; … - 2022
in the United States, we specify a flexible model to capture competition between a plant in a state with carbon pricing …
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Unemployment in the European Union : institutions, prices, and growth
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001800159
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Why does unemployment hurt the employed? : evidence from the life satisfaction gap between the public and the private sector
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences...
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality … (part of which stems from the larger covariance between management with firm size as competition strengthens); and (iii) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486495
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The importance of school systems : evidence from international differences in student achievement
Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
, private competition, and tracking have been found to be important sources of international differences in student achievement. …
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The relationship between income inquality, poverty and globalisation
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226391