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One-stop source: a global database of inflation

Ha, Jongrim; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - 2021

-based disinflation around the world over the past half-century, with global consumer price inflation down from a peak of roughly 17 …

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Domestic road infrastructure and international trade : evidence from Turkey

Coşar, A. Kerem; Demir, Banu - 2014

Poor domestic transportation infrastructure in developing countries is often cited as an important impediment for accessing international markets. Yet, evidence on how transportation infrastructure improvements affect the volume and composition of exports is scarce. Drawing on the large-scale...

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Borders, geography, and oligopoly : evidence from the wind turbine industry

Cosar, A. Kerem; Grieco, Paul L. E.; Tintelnot, Felix - 2012

Using a micro-level dataset of wind turbine installations in Denmark and Germany, we estimate a structural oligopoly model with cross-border trade and heterogeneous firms. Our approach separately identifies border-related from distance-related variable costs and bounds the fixed cost of...

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Exchange-rate pass-through to import prices : nonlinearities and exchange rate and inflationary regimes

Kýlýc, Rehim - 2010

This paper investigates the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and exchange rate appreciations/depreciations and inflation by estimating nonlinear time series models. Motivated by theoretical and empirical results in the literature, the paper proposes new econometric models that can...

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On the stationarity of per capita carbon dioxide emissions over a century

Christidou, Maria; Panagiōtidēs, Theodōros; Sharma, … - 2013

This paper examines the stationarity of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita for a set of 36 countries covering the period 1870-2006. We employ recently developed unit root and stationarity tests that allow for the mean reverting process to be nonlinear and take into account cross sectional...

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The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies across OECD countries

Amaral, Pedro S.; Tasci, Murat - 2014 - This version: November 19, 2013

We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential...

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PPP in OECD countries : an analysis of real exchange rate stationarity, cross-sectional dependency and structural breaks

Holmes, Mark J.; Otero, Jesús G.; Panagiōtidēs, … - 2011

The stationarity of OECD real exchange rates over the period 1972-2008 is tested using a panel of twenty six member countries. The methodology followed stems from the need to meet several key concerns: (i) the identification of which panel members are stationary; (ii) the presence of...

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The aftermath of debt surges

Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska; Reinhart, Carmen M.; … - 2021

Debt in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) is at its highest level in half a century. In about nine out of 10 EMDEs, debt is higher now than it was in 2010 and, in half of the EMDEs, debt is more than 30 percentage points of gross domestic product higher. Historically, elevated...

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Kriz ve korumacılık : Tarih tekerrür edecek mi?

Öz, Sumru - 2009

As a result of the current global financial crisis, in 2009 the world economy is likely to experience the largest … contraction since World War II and the unemployment rate to reach historical highs in many countries. The fact that the current … Great Depression are not valid anymore to a great extent. Together with the decisions taken by the leaders of the world …

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci - 2010

. -- Unemployment duration ; Democracy ; Education ; Development ; World Values Survey …

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