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COVID-19 and the CPI : is inflation underestimated?

Reinsdorf, Marshall B. - 2020

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Structural breaks in carbon emissions : a machine learning analysis

Yao, Jiaxiong; Zhao, Yunhui - 2022

To reach the global net-zero goal, the level of carbon emissions has to fall substantially at speed rarely seen in history, highlighting the need to identify structural breaks in carbon emission patterns and understand forces that could bring about such breaks. In this paper, we identify and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170573

Price statistics compilation in 196 economies : the relevance for policy analysis

Berry, Francien; Graf, Brian; Stanger, Michael; … - 2019

The consumer price index (CPI) is a key economic indicator used to gauge inflation, adjust wages, pensions, and social … that the CPI is universally and frequently compiled, timely, and fairly-well aligned with international standards. However … and ensure that the indexes properly measure the price evolution in the economy …

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Growth and jobs in developing economies : trends and cycles

An, Zidong; Ghazi, Tayeb; Gonzalez Prieto, Nathalie - 2017

This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and job creation in developing economies with a focus on low and lower middle-income countries along two dimensions: growth patterns and short-run correlations. Analysis on growth patterns shows that regime changes are quite common...

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6½ decades of global trade and income : “new normal” or “back to normal” after GTC and GFC?

Kalra, Sanjay - 2016

Global merchandise trade expanded rapidly over the last 6 1\2 decades and its relationship with global income has seen ebbs and flows. This paper examines the shifts in this relationship using time series data over 1950-2014 and situates it in the current and longer term context. The...

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Demand for Money in Mozambique : Was there a Structural Break?

Piñón-Farah, Marco A. - 1998

The paper provides estimates of an error-correction model of the demand for narrow money (M1) and broad money (M2) in Mozambique. In addition, it assesses whether the rapid growth in money balances during 1996–97 represents a structural break or can be associated with the rapidly expanding...

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Structural Breaks in Fiscal Performance : Did Fiscal Responsibility Laws Have Anything to Do with them?

Medina, Leandro - 2010

In recent years, many countries have adopted Fiscal Responsibility Laws to strengthen fiscal institutions and promote fiscal discipline in a credible, predictable and transparent manner. Still, results on the effectiveness of these laws remain tentative. In this paper, we test empirically...

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Shocks and Structural Breaks : Labor Market Reforms in the United Kingdom

Prasad, Eswar - 1994

This paper analyzes the effects of the labor market reforms launched in the early 1980s by the Conservative government led by Mrs. Thatcher. It is argued that the increase in the growth of labor productivity in manufacturing after 1980 as well as the improvement in the responsiveness of...

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Testing for Structural Breaks in Small Samples

Antoshin, Sergei - 2008

In a recent paper, Bai and Perron (2006) demonstrate that their approach for testing for multiple structural breaks in time series works well in large samples, but they found substantial deviations in both the size and power of their tests in smaller samples. We propose modifying their...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401682

Policy Reform, Shadow Prices, and Market Prices

International Monetary Fund - 1988

, or correctly defined, shadow prices. We show how shadow prices may be integrated into an analysis of tax and price reform …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396134

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