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our measure into technical efficiency and reallocation components. This requires us to confront the "non …
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in the U.S. economy accords a relatively small role to education. This result seems at variance with the revolution in …
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We investigate the effects of input variety creation and destruction on both micro- and macroeconomic outcomes using detailed data from Belgium. We estimate that marginal costs rise by 0.6% for every 1% of suppliers lost. We show that this elasticity measures the area under the input demand...
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This paper examines the macroeconomic aftermath of the 1992 breakdown of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM). The economic performance of six leaver' nations is compared with five stayer' nations that maintained a roughly fixed parity with the Deutsche Mark. Recent writing about...
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point to large and persistent swings in productivity, both favorable and adverse, originating in the US but not transmitted …-specific technological change enjoyed in the US during the 1990s, it also escaped the stagnation in neutral technological progress that … plagued the US in the 1970s …
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rates and an increase in the dependency ratio. The third issue is the projection of long-term U.S. growth in GDP at a rate …
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and US observed developments. The gap between US and euro area GDP per capita level has been 30% on average since 1970 and …
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realignment of world growth rates -- with Japan and Europe growing faster, and the U.S. growing more slowly -- is likely to solve … the Euro Zone growing faster, and the U.S. moderating its growth -- would only make a modest contribution towards the …
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The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of increased longevity and a reduced birth rate will directly reduce the growth rates of the European economies by slowing the growth of the capital stock and by weakening the productivity...
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, and economic transition paths of China, Japan, the U.S., and the EU. Each of these countries/regions is entering a period …
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