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and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …
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technologies (ICT) for developments in productivity growth in the euro area. On the basis of the available data, there is evidence … overall productivity growth. This implies that there is no reason to believe that potential output growth in the euro area has …
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Capital quality improvement is a general phenomenon. Therefore quality correction is needed in price indexes. There is substantial evidence of biases in the official price indexes of capital equipment. We apply to euro area statistics estimates of these biases based on US data thus deriving...
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triggers a drop in consumption. Net trade does not contribute to spillbacks because US monetary policy affects exports and …
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trade data and GDP statistics. …
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Financial globalisation and spillovers have gained immense prominence over the last two decades. Yet, powerful cross … contamination is more severe for economies that are more susceptible to financial spillovers in the data; and the shock estimates … imply implausibly similar estimates of the global output spillovers from monetary policy in the US and the euro area. None …
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We assess the empirical validity of the trilemma (or impossible trinity) in the 2000s for a large sample of advanced and emerging economies. To do so, we estimate Taylor-rule type monetary policy reaction functions, relating the local policy rate to real-time forecasts of domestic fundamentals,...
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-currency pricing (PCP) and local-currency pricing (LCP). In the model, under DCP the output spillovers from shocks that appreciate the … prediction from DCP the output spillovers from US dollar appreciation correlate negatively with recipient economies' export … commodity trade in US dollar invoicing. …
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dominant currency in global trade. According to ECB-Global, in such a scenario the global spillovers from US shocks are smaller …A large share of global trade being priced and invoiced primarily in US dollar rather than the exporter's or the … affects in particular the role of expenditure-switching and the US dollar exchange rate for spillovers: In case of a shock in …
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Financial globalisation and spillovers have gained immense prominence over the last two decades. Yet, powerful cross … contamination is more severe for economies that are more susceptible to financial spillovers in the data; and the shock estimates … imply implausibly similar estimates of the global output spillovers from monetary policy in the US and the euro area. None …
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