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-run output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on … results support the long-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil … steadily over the past three decades, the theory suggests that the effect of oil income on the economy's steady state growth …
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output equation with a coefficient equal to the share of capital. The long run theory is tested using a new quarterly data … long run relations: an output equation as predicted by the theory and a standard real money demand equation with inflation …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using (panel) cointegration techniques. The existence of cointegration between … oil revenues, GDP and investment can be confirmed for all countries. While the cointegration vector is found to be unique …
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For more than two decades now, current-account imbalances are a crucial issue in the international policy debate as they threaten the stability of the world economy. More recently, the government debt crisis of the European Union shows that internal current account imbalances inside a currency...
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This study uses 1971-2013 panel data to explore the implications of growth, wealth disparities and energy consumption on carbon emissions in a sample of Next-Eleven (N-11) countries. It uses modern econometric techniques to highlight a long-run interplay between selected variables in the carbon...
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We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
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In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings …
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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …
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We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in …
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