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International Evidence on Sticky Consumption Growth

Carroll, Chris - 2008

We estimate the degree of amp;apos;stickinessamp;apos; in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a...

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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...

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Taylor Rules and the Deutschmark-Dollar Real Exchange Rate

Engel, Charles; West, Kenneth D. - 2022

We explore the link between an interest rate rule for monetary policy and the behavior of the real exchange rate. The interest rate rule, in conjunction with some standard assumptions, implies that the deviation of the real exchange rate from its steady state depends on the present value of a...

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An Examination of Aggregate Price Uncertainty in Four Countries and Someimplications for Real Output

Froyen, Richard T.; Waud, Roger N. - 2021

This study constructs measures of aggregate price uncertainty for four industrialized countries (Canada, West Germany … price level in Canada, Great Britain and the United States, but the evidence for West Germany would not sustain such a … the United Kingdom, but not for the United States or West Germany …

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Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfall

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Nikolsko‐Rzhevskyy, Alex; … - 2021

fluctuations in regional rainfall within the Ottoman Empire capture the exogenous variation in exports from the Empire to Germany … exported to Germany, France, and the U.K. by the Empire. Using the export-bundle-weighted regional rainfall as an instrument …

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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020

Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...

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Does Innovation Stimulate Employment? A Firm-Level Analysis Using Comparable Micro-Data from Four European Countries

Harrison, Rupert - 2014

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

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Demographic Obstacles to European Growth

Cooley, Thomas F. - 2019

Since the early 1990's the growth rates of the four largest European economies—France, Germany, Italy, and the United …

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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Stock, James H. - 2020

This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...

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Exchange Rates and Corporate Pricing Strategies

Knetter, Michael M. - 2010

This paper reviews the recent literature on pass-through and pricing-to-market. Pricing-to market behavior is estimated for a new, larger data set with 60 German and 20 U.S. 7-digit industries. The results conform closely to what has been found elsewhere in smaller detailed data sets and at...

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