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Monetary Policy and Performance in the U.S., Japan and Europe, 1973-86
Fischer, Stanley - 1987
Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …
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Successful Austerity in the United States, Europe and Japan
Callegari, Giovanni - 2012
, Europe and Japan allowing for fiscal multipliers to vary across recessions and booms. We also estimate ex ante probabilities …
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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa - 2012
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of several data sets (the International Social Survey...
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Underemployment in the US and Europe
Bell, David N.F. - 2018
Large numbers of part-time workers around the world, both those who choose to be part-time and those who are there involuntarily and would prefer a full-time job report they want more hours. Full-timers who say they want to change their hours mostly say they want to reduce them. When recession...
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Migration and Fiscal Externality : US vs. Europe
Razin, Assaf - 2020
The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective skill-based migration policy in the US compared to the European Union. Policy coordination among states within the federal system on migration, taxes, and social benefits among...
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
Casual observation indicates that in recent years real interest rates in the United States appear to have risen sharply and have remained high relative to historical standards. Many observers have claimed that these high real rates have been transmitted abroad and have lead to high real rates in...
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Work and Leisure in the U.S. and Europe : Why So Different?
Alesina, Alberto - 2005
Americans average 25.1 working hours per person in working age per week, but the Germans average 18.6 hours. The average American works 46.2 weeks per year, while the French average 40 weeks per year. Why do western Europeans work so much less than Americans? Recent work argues that these...
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Comment on: "Systemic sovereign credit risk : lessons from the US and Europe" by Ang and Longstaff
Chen, Hui - In: Journal of monetary economics 60 (2013) 5, pp. 511-516
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Regional Labor Market Adjustments in the United States and Europe
Dao, Mai - 2014
We examine patterns of regional adjustments to shocks in the US during the past 40 years. Using state-level data, we estimate the dynamic response of regional employment, unemployment, participation rates and net migration to state-relative labor demand shocks. We find that (i) the long-run...
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Cyclical Behavior of Inventories and Growth Projections Recent Evidence From Europe and the United States
Hoffmaister, Alexander W. - 2010
In the United States and a few European countries, inventory behavior is mainly the outcome of demand shocks: a standard buffer-stock model best characterizes these economies. But most European countries are described by a modified buffer-stock model where supply shocks dominate. In contrast to...
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