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The persistently low wage and price growth in the EMU after the Great Recession of 2009 led some economic observers to … EMU member states after the Great Recession to investigate whether these claims are corroborated by empirical evidence …. The results point to the conclusion that the Phillips Curve is alive and well in the EMU and centred at or only slightly …
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three concurrently will ultimately end in failure. In order to save EMU, one of these three must be abandoned. …
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We argue that in an economy with downward nominal wage rigidity, the output gap is negative on average. Because it is more difficult to cut wages than to increase them, firms reduce employment more during downturns than they increase employment during expansions. This is demonstrated in a simple...
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We study the properties of the IMF-WEO estimates of real-time output gaps for countries in the euro area as well as the determinants of their revisions over 1994-2017. The analysis shows that staff typically saw economies as operating below their potential. In real time, output gaps tend to have...
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The process of European integration can be described as the increasing interdependence between economies at different levels of development and with different productive capabilities. It evolved from a pre-eminently political project to a ‘de-politicised’ management based on the automatism...
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