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Decoupling from the East Toward the West? Analyses of Spillovers to the Baltic Countries
Fund, International Monetary - 2009
This paper uses VAR models to examine the magnitude and sources of growth spillovers to the Baltics from key trading partners, as well asfrom the real effective exchange rate (REER). Our results show there are significant cross-country spillovers to the Baltics with those from the EU outweighing...
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Is Inflation Good for Business? The Firm-Level Impact of Inflation Shocks in the Baltics, 1997-2021
Cevik, Serhan - 2024
Using a large panel of firm-level data, this paper provides an analysis of how inflation shocks in the Baltics between 1997 and 2021 affected total factor productivity (TFP), gross profitability, and net fixed investment in nonfinancial sectors. First, we find that inflation and inflation...
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil
Carvalho Filho, Irineu E. - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...
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Household Vulnerability to Income Shocks in Emerging and Developing Asia: the Case of Cambodia, Nepal and Vietnam
De Stefani, Alessia - 2022
We leverage survey data from emerging and developing Asia to highlight different aspects of household vulnerability to income shocks arising from the Covid-19 pandemic: occupation in Cambodia, self-insurance mechanisms in Nepal, and financial leverage in Vietnam. Occupation and ex-ante income...
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Household Income As A Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil : Evidence From A Social Security Reform
de Carvalho Filho, Irineu - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014409070
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Dissecting saving dynamics : measuring wealth, precautionary, and credit effects
Carroll, Chris; Slacalek, Jirka; Sommer, Martin - 2012
We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...
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A Real Model of Transitional Growth and Competitiveness in China
Lipschitz, Leslie - 2008
increases in employment and output rather than only in wages; and (2) even though the domestic saving rate is high, foreign …
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Impact of Trade on Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small?
Saito, Mika - 2006
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Public-Private Wage Differentials and Interactions Across Countries and Time
Abdallah, Chadi - 2023
We compile a novel database on average public and private sector wages and public-private wage differentials, which we … counter-cyclically, increasing during economic downturns, and increases prior to elections. Both private sector wages and … inflation respond positively to changes in public wages, albeit with significant heterogeneity in the effects across countries …
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Baltic and Icelandic Experiences of Capital Flows and Capital Flow Measures
Groenn, Audun; Fredholm, Maria Wallin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
The aim of this empirical study is to describe and provide analysis on the experience of managing capital flows in Iceland and the Baltic countries. During the build-up of the crisis, there were shortcomings in macroeconomic policies and in the policy mix, as well as in financial supervision in...
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