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Private school students do not always perform better in standardized tests. We suggest that this may be explained by choice of private schooling by less capable students in countries where government schools are better suited to talented students. To assess the empirical relevance of this...
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This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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The onset of the housing and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 marked the steepest economic downturn in the United. States, since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. This most recent financial crisis has been characterized by massive layoffs and displacement. Given the depth of...
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and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …
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countries and non-Inflation Targeting countries, Section 5 uses panel estimation methods including GMM techniques on different …This paper evaluates the success of Inflation Targeting on inflation and growth on a large panel data set of both … authors have used different estimation methods on different samples of data. Some of the differences in results may also be …
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We study the link between expected inflation and wages using novel panel data from German firms and employees. We find … that pass-through - the percentage point change in wage growth given a one percentage point change in expected inflation … extensive margin, expected inflation has little effect on additional wage negotiations. …
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associated with significant differences in the response of inflation to unemployment and exchange rate shocks. More wage … coordination and higher union density flatten the Phillips curve and increase the inflation response to the real exchange rate, i …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and … these shocks also generate plausible impulse-responses for unemployment. Although our theory contains no money illusion, no …
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inflation and unemployment. We focus on the G7 economies plus Spain, and use monthly data –high-frequency data in a macro …
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eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average treatment effect suggest that children …
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