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Social stability challenged: pandemics, inequality and policy responses
Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, Marko - 2020
economic lockdown and contagion. We then supply empirical evidence, by means of simulation analysis, on the distributive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214250
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Counterfactual analysis in macroeconometrics : an empirical investigation into the effects of quantitative easing
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2012
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It distinguishes between cases where the policy change affects the model's parameters and where it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548055
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The contribution of social transfers to the reduction of poverty
Longford, Nicholas T.; Nicodemo, Catia - 2010
We interpret social transfers broadly as a set of measures to reduce or relieve poverty, and study how well this purpose is served in the countries that participated in the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions in 2007. Motivated by the findings, we characterise a social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013077
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Assessing the impact of incomes policy : the italian experience
Pastore, Francesco - 2010
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which culminated with the final abolition of scala mobile (1992) and the approval of Protocollo d'intesa...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779168
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Examining the impact of macro-economic conditions on income inequality
Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen - 2001
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality indices on variables such as the unemployment and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403817
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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2024
The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper …-productivity firms in Switzerland. Innovation support sustains firms' R&D activities in both countries. Our structural growth model … identifies the impact of innovation, imitation and R&D costs on firms' R&D decisions. R&D costs gained importance in Switzerland …
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COVID-19: erroneous modelling and its policy implications
Bar-On, Yinon; Baron, Tatiana; Cornfeld, Ofer; Milo, Ron; … - 2021
Research in Economics on COVID-19 posits an economy subject to disease dynamics, which are often seriously misspecified in terms of speed and scale. Using a social planner problem, we show that such misspecifications lead to misguided policy. Erroneously characterizing a relatively slow-moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491161
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Oil exports and the Iranian economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909263
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In-work policies in Europe : killing two birds with one stone?
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Orsini, Kristian (contributor) - 2004
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative consensus on the need for 'making work pay' policies is muddied by a number of concerns relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540602
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Distributional effects of emission pricing in a carbon-intensive economy: the case of Poland
Antosiewicz, Marek; Fuentes S. M., J. Rodrigo; … - 2020
-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a …
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