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We estimate the elasticity of substitution of a country's imports, and that of its exports on the world market, for EU … countries, due to different production and trade structures. We obtain aggregate elasticities for the EU27 countries, with a …
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factors that are found to have affected changes in exchanges rate levels are policy actions at the EU level and by the ECB …
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We propose a model for analyzing euro area trade based on the interaction between macroeconomic and trade variables. First, we show that macroeconomic variables are necessary to generate accurate short-term trade forecasts; this result can be explained by the high correlation between trade and...
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We explain the role of the Phillips Curve in the analysis of the economic outlook and the formulation of monetary policy at the ECB. First, revisiting the structural Phillips Curve, we highlight the challenges in recovering structural parameters from reduced-form estimates and relate the...
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Price inflation in the euro area has been stable and low since the Global Financial Crisis, despite notable changes in output and unemployment. We show that an increasing share of high markup firms is part of the explanation of why inflation remained stubbornly stable and low in the euro area...
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investigate the drivers of export market shares of 25 EU countries, considering a wide range of traditional indicators along with … from China have strongly affected export performance since the early 2000s. In the case of old EU Member States, investment …, quality of institutions and available liquidity to firms also appear to play a role. For the new EU Member States, labour and …
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We estimate the response of product-level retail prices to changes in the corporate tax rates paid by wholesale producers (pass-through). Under perfect competition in goods and factor markets, pass-through of corporate taxes should be zero, and their incidence mainly falls on factor prices. We...
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We study exchange rate pass-through (ERPT), i.e., the impact of exchange rate movements on inflation, focusing on euro area import prices at a sectorally disaggregated level. Our estimation strategy is based on VAR-X models, thus incorporating both endogenous and exogenous explanatory...
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