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What matters to economic decision-making is whether the economy has become more or less predictable. People and businesses use information around them to form judgements about what might happen in the future. The rise in uncertainty might be associated with increased concern about extreme...
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The basic asset pricing equation is adapted to include the effects of unemployment, consumers’ expectations, the price level and money supply on money market rates and government bond yields. Expected consumption growth is modelled using European unemployment figures and Eurostat Consumer...
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In this paper, first, we will take notice of the development of the stock markets in six euro area countries with highest public debt: Greece, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Belgium, and Spain. Subsequently, a comparison of returns and volatility will be made with the development of selected...
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with the difficult task of providing explanations of the business cycle consistent both with the traditional theory of … income distribution and with the empirical evidence concerning the co-movements of real wages and employment over the cycle …. The attempts to reconcile facts and theory have led to the continuous introduction of specific and arguably ad hoc …
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This paper introduces a model of efficiency-wage competition along the lines put forward by Hahn (1987). Specifically, I analyse a two-firm economy in which employers screen their workforce by means of increasing wage offers competing one another for high-quality employees. The main results are...
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rising real income; the author's over- and under-interpretation of Ricardo’s theory on international trade based on …Profit as rent: Some remarks about a pro-capitalist theory of development This study discusses several of the economic …
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In this paper, we explore the fluctuations of unemployment and vacancies in the Italian labour market over the last twenty years. For reasons of data availability on unfilled job openings, this period is split in two parts. The former is covered by a help-wanted time series, while the latter is...
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Keynes had a lot of plausible things to say about unemployment and its causes. His ‘mercurial mind’, though, relied on intuition which means that he could not prove his diverse opinions convincingly. This explains why Keynes’s ideas immediately invited bastardizations. One of them, the...
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Based on the savings glut argument, proposed a new point of view that unlike the neoclassical and Keynesian, and on … the economic disconnection between theory and reality is rooted in not distinguish the difference between real investment … demand and monetary investment demand. There is the savings glut, from the real economy,this is the main cause for the …
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There is not much use to attack standard economics because deep in his heart the representative economist long knows that he is tied to a degenerating research program. The problem is, rather, that it seems to be exceedingly difficult to build up a convincing alternative. Keynes, for one, tried...
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