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Innovation and productivity in European industries

Pianta, Mario (contributor); Vaona, Andrea (contributor) - 2006

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining productivity and export success in European...

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Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing

Vaona, Andrea (contributor); Pianta, Mario (contributor) - 2006

The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and...

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Real wages and monetary policy transmission in the euro area

McCallum, Andrew (contributor); Smets, Frank (contributor) - 2007

We use the Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression (FAVAR) approach of Bernanke, Boivin and Eliasz (2005) to estimate the effects of monetary policy shocks on wages and employment in the euro area. The use of a large data set comprising country, sectoral and euro area-wide data allows us to...

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Is core money growth a good and stable inflation predictor in the euro area?

Carstensen, Kai (contributor) - 2007

In this paper, it is analyzed whether core money growth helps to predict future inflation in a useful and reliable way. Using an out-of-sample forecasting exercise and a stability analysis, it is shown that core money growth carries important information not contained in the inflation history,...

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Which membership matters? : External vs. internal determinants of institutional change in transition countries

Drautzburg, Thorsten (contributor); … - 2008

development and even more robust than variables measuring the integration into the EU. This allows for some optimism about the … incentives for good governance. -- EU ; NATO ; transition economies ; institutional change ; governance …

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Determinants of government bond spreads in the Euro Area : in good times as in bad

Aßmann, Christian; Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - 2009

Despite the single currency, yields on government bonds in the Euro Area deviate from German bond yields. These bond spreads are usually attributed to differing default and liquidity risks. Recent research points out that time-varying global factors, approximated by risk measures or short term...

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Explaining European emission allowance price dynamics : evidence from Phase II

Rickels, Wilfried; Görlich, Dennis; Oberst, Gerrit - 2010

In 2005, the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) established a new commodity: the right to emit a ton of CO2 (EUA … important short-term abatement option for most installations in the EU-ETS. The empirical results show a significant influence … is improved by the inclusion of time series characteristics. -- Carbon emission trading ; EU ETS ; Carbon price influence …

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Nonlinear expectations in speculative markets : evidence from the ECB survey of professional forecasters

Reitz, Stefan; Ruelke, Jan-Christoph; Stadtmann, Georg - 2011

Chartist and fundamentalist models have proven to be capable of replicating stylized facts on speculative markets. In general, this is achieved by specifying nonlinear interactions of otherwise linear asset price expectations of the respective trader groups. This paper investigates whether or...

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Primary surplus and debt projections based on estimated fiscal reaction functions for euro area countries

Plödt, Martin; Boeing-Reicher, Claire - 2014

We project the path of the public debt and primary surpluses for a number of countries in the euro area under a fiscal rule based on a set of estimated fiscal policy reaction functions. Our fiscal rule represents a fiscal analogue to a well-known monetary policy rule, and it is calibrated using...

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Estimating simple fiscal policy reaction functions for the euro area countries

Plödt, Martin; Boeing-Reicher, Claire - 2014

We formulate and estimate a simple fiscal policy reaction function for the euro area and individual euro area countries. Our reaction function allows for primary surpluses to feature three components: an anti-cyclical response of primary surpluses to the output gap, a response to the debt-GDP...

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