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The U.K. Business Cycle, Monetary Policy, and EMU Entry
Samiei, Hossein - 2000
In the context of the U.K. government’s EMU entry condition of cyclical convergence, this paper (i) provides further evidence suggesting that historically the U.K.’s business cycle has been more volatile than, and relatively independent of, the cycles in the euro-area countries; and (ii)...
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The macroeconomic effects of labor and product market reforms in Morocco
Sarr, Babacar; Benlamine, Mokhtar; Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects and sequencing of (LMRs) and product (PMRs) market reforms in Morocco. It finds that introducing LMRs and PMRs simultaneously would add about 2.5 percentage points (pp) of GDP growth and reduce unemployment by about 2.2 pp after five years. If...
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Product market deregulation and growth : new country-industry-level evidence
Bouis, Romain; Duval, Romain; Eugster, Johannes - 2016
The paper investigates the economic effects of major product market reforms in some of the historically most protected non-manufacturing industries. It relies on a unique mapping between new annual data on reform shocks and sector-level outcomes for five network industries (electricity and gas,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011711479
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Employment protection deregulation and labor shares in advanced economies
Ciminelli, Gabriele; Duval, Romain; Furceri, Davide - 2018
Labor market deregulation, intended to boost productivity and employment, is one plausible, yet little studied, driver … the impact of job protection deregulation in a sample of 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2015, using a newly … grounded in theory-namely that job protection deregulation should have larger negative effects in industries characterized by …
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The EU services directive : gains from further liberalization
Fernández Corugedo, Emilio; Pérez Ruiz, Esther - 2014
The EU Services Directive was adopted in 2006 to foster competition in services across Europe. However, progress in liberalizing services has fallen short of expectations due to the article 15 of the Directive, which allows countries to maintain pre-existing restrictions if judged necessary to...
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Indirect Taxeson International Aviation
Strand, Jon - 2006
This paper examines the case for internationally coordinated indirect taxes on aviation (as a source of general revenue-not (necessarily) as a source of development finance). The case for such taxes is strong: the tax burden on international aviation is currently limited, yet it contributes...
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Entry costs and the macroeconomy
Gutiérrez Gallardo, Germán; Jones, Callum; Philippon, … - 2019
We combine a structural model with cross-sectional micro data to identify the causes and consequences of rising concentration in the US economy. Using asset prices and industry data, we estimate realized and anticipated shocks that drive entry and concentration. We validate our approach by...
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What is the impact of increased business competition?
Félix, Sónia; Maggi, Chiara - 2019
This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that...
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Market reforms at the zero lower bound
Cacciatore, Matteo; Duval, Romain; Fiori, Giuseppe; … - 2017
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market reforms when the economy faces major slack and a binding constraint on monetary policy easing. such as the zero lower bound. To this end, we build a two-country model with endogenous producer entry, labor market frictions, and nominal...
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How do regulations of entry and credit access relate to industry competition? : international evidence
Igan, Deniz; Mirzaei, Ali; Moore, Tomoe - 2018
We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the...
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