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Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after …
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fiscal costs of such reversals. We thereby integrate the country-specific information from the latest Ageing Report into a … additional pension reforms needed to contain the public debt pressures arising from population ageing and second the costs of … reform reversals. Our model results show that undoing past pension reforms would generate substantial adverse macroeconomic …
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We combine a structural model with cross-sectional micro data to identify the causes andconsequences of rising concentration in the US economy. Using asset prices and industrydata, we estimate realized and anticipated shocks that drive entry and concentration. Wevalidate our approach by showing...
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: (1) distribution expenses are large – they amount to over half of labor costs; (2) plants in the largest decile …, distribution costs as a share of sales declined by one third. We develop a model of heterogeneous manufacturing firms that rely on … share. In combination with the model, these trends suggest largescale decreases in both variable and fixed costs of …
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This paper investigates empirically the drivers of financial imbalances ahead of the global financial crisis. Three factors may have contributed to the build-up of financial imbalances: (i) rising global imbalances (capital flows), (ii) monetary policy that might have been too loose, (iii)...
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The effectiveness of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in open economies could be impaired if interest rates are driven primarily by global factors, especially during periods of large capital inflows. The main objective of this paper is to assess whether this is true for emerging Asia's...
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vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than fully understood; that the history of ‘big ideas' in guiding tax reform …
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This paper empirically investigates the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries using a structural vector autoregressive model. The results indicate that the interest rate and bank lending channels are relatively effective in influencing...
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practical solution, adopted by national accounts systems, is to equate output to input costs. However, several studies estimate …
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This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...
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