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On the Exchange Rate and Economic Policy Uncertainty Nexus : A Panel VAR Approach for Emerging Markets
Abid, Abir - 2020
We examine the Exchange Rate Volatility (ERV) response to the Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) shocks from a panel VAR …
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The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade : An Asymmetric Analysis
Ferjani, Sabrine; Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, … - 2022
Contrary to most existing studies of the literature that assumed that the effects of real exchange rate (RE) misalignment on trade flows are symmetric, this paper considers a more general and realistic framework allowing for possible asymmetric effects. We use monthly time-series data over the...
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The Effectiveness of Interventions to Reduce Informality in Low- and Middle Income Countries
Jessen, Jonas - 2019
Labor markets in low- and middle income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have therefore been implemented in many countries with the objective to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865842
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Un Interventions : The Role of Geography
Duque, Juan C. - 2014
This paper argues that UN military interventions are geographically biased. For every 1,000 kilometers of distance from the three Western permanent UNSC members (France, UK, US), the probability of a UN military intervention decreases by 4 percent. We are able to rule out several alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056248
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Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth : Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Andini, Corrado - 2014
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian full-time workers with permanent contracts, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039598
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2013
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074886
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets Under Frictional Financial Markets
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2010
Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke andGertler 1989). We follow … this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks … are a good candidate to solve the volatility puzzle and rejoin Pissarides (2009) in arguing that hiring costs must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139045
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the Emu and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
Abbritti, Mirko - 2012
volatility of both inflation and unemployment differentials. Finally, we show that it is important to take into account the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107467
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They are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
Gartner, Hermann - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155589
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Government Deficit Shocks and Okun's Coefficient Volatility : New Insights on the Austerity Versus Growth Debate
Pham, Binh Thai - 2019
This paper connects two salient economic features: (i) Fiscal shocks have asymmetric effects across business cycle phases (Gechert et al., 2019); (ii) Okun's coefficient is time varying and may be unstable. The intertwined dynamic behavior of fiscal shocks and unemployment-output trade-offs are...
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