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Product Variety and Economic Growth : Empirical Evidence for the Oecd Countries
Funke, Michael - 2000
This paper uses panel data for 19 OECD countries and finds support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of product variety relative to the United States helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399925
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Neglected Heterogeneity and Dynamics in Cross-Country Savings Regressions
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper examines the extent to which conclusions of cross-country studies of private savings are robust to allowing for the possible heterogeneity of savings behavior across countries and the inclusion of dynamics. It shows that neglecting heterogeneity and dynamics can lead to misleading...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400163
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The Long-Run Effects of Tradeon Income and Income Growth
Brunner, Allan D. - 2003
leads to an increase in average income, economic theory is ambiguous about the possible effects on the long-run growth rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404012
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Gdp Growth, Potential Output, and Output Gaps in Mexico
Faal, Ebrima - 2005
This paper analyzes the sources of Mexico''s economic growth since the 1960s and compares various decompositions of historical growth into its trend and cyclical components. The role of the implied output gaps in the inflationary process is then assessed. Looking ahead, the paper presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400927
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Aggregation of Economic Indicators Across Countries : Exchange Rate versus PPP Based GDP Weights
Schulze-Gattas, Marianne - 1992
Relative GDP shares are frequently used as weights in aggregations. In order to ensure that these weights reflect countries’ shares in real output, GDP data in national currencies should be converted into a common numeraire currency at purchasing power parity (PPP) rates. A review of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398543
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What is Different About Family Businesses?
Chami, Ralph - 2001
developing countries. This paper develops a theory of family business that brings market forces and the family, as a nonmarket …Family businesses make up forty percent of the Fortune 500 companies in the US, generate about two-thirds of the German …, and succession, which allow family businesses to thrive and to successfully compete with other businesses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399982
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Does Spousal Labor Smooth Fluctuations in Husbands' Earnings? : The Role of Liquidity Constraints
Garcia-Escribano, Mercedes - 2004
liquidity constraints, the temporal change in family income (exclusive of wives'' earnings) reinforces the substitution effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401440
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Exploring the output effect of fiscal policy shocks in low income countries
Honda, Jiro; Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Taniguchi, Mina - 2020
statistically significant output effect under floating exchange rate regimes. For the estimation of the output effects of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252736
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Labor market slack and the output gap : the case of Korea
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mongardini, Joannes; Zhang, Fan - 2019
Output gap estimates are widely used to inform macroeconomic policy decisions, including in Korea. The main determinant of these estimates is the measure of labor market slack. The traditional measure of unemployment in Korea yields an incomplete estimate of labor market slack, given that many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102193
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The negative mean output gap
Aiyar, Shekhar; Voigts, Simon - 2019
the model's output gap as a benchmark, we further show that common output gap estimation methods exhibit a systematic bias …
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