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This paper explores the stability of the relation between money demand for M3 and inflation in the euro area by …
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Money growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since 2001. Likewise, recent empirical studies did not find …) estimation methods. To obtain the result, the short run homogeneity restriction between money and prices is relaxed. In addition …, a rise in the income elasticity after 2001 is taken into account. The break might be linked to the introduction of euro …
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We investigate hysteresis and persistence behaviour in the course of unemployment in EU countries and US states by means of first and second generation panel unit root tests. While the former tests assume independent cross sections, the latter control for dependencies. The first generation tests...
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We examine real business cycle convergence for 41 euro area regions and 48 US states. Results obtained by a panel model … decades in the euro area and the US. Ongoing business cycle convergence often detected in a country data is not confirmed at … the regional level. The degree of synchronization across the euro area is similar to that to be found for the US states …
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We explore the long and short run relationship between private consumption, disposable income and housing and financial wealth approximated by price indices for a panel of industrialized countries. Consumption, income and wealth are cointegrated in their common, but not in their idiosyncratic...
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This paper examines the long-run relationship between energy consumption and real GDP, including energy prices, for 25 OECD countries from 1981 to 2007. The distinction between common factors and idiosyncratic components using principal component analysis allows to distinguish between...
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In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional (NUTS-2) data. The Solow model extended by human capital is employed as a workhorse. Alternative strategies are proposed to control for spatial effects. All specifications...
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Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
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paper re-investigates the stability properties of M3 demandin the euro area in the light of the recent economic crisis. A …
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Deviations of policy interest rates from the levels implied by the Taylor rule have been persistent before the financial crisis and increased especially after the turn of the century. Compared to the Taylor benchmark, policy rates were often too low. This paper provides evidence that both...
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