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While economic theory highlights the usefulness of flexible exchange rates in promoting adjustment in international relative prices, flexible exchange rates also can be a source of destabilizing shocks. We find that when countries joining the euro currency union abandoned their national exchange...
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, Sweden, UK and US)--documenting different strategies and the substantive reduction in central bank balance sheets that has …
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and Sweden). We conduct inference with mixed frequency data, combining quarterly series for unemployment, vacancies, GDP …
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Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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governments or market institutions provide the services. Sweden and the United States are on opposite ends of this spectrum. After … compare the development of the social welfare institutions in the U.S. and Sweden in the 20th century …
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While the U.S. and Sweden both lost more than 20 per cent of their shares of world and developed countries' exports of …. These developments suggest that the declining trade shares of the U.S. and Sweden were not due mainly to deterioration in … Sweden, and in all industry groups, with one exception, the multinationals' export shares increased relative to those of …
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This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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This working paper presents Chapter 2 of a book that has been submitted to the University of Chicago Press for publication consideration. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital infour countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and including...
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This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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I revisit the potential costs and benefits for Sweden of joining the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) of the European … inflation and GDP growth might have been slightly higher if Sweden had been a member of EMU since the launch in 1999, but also … in the monetary union would be advantageous for Sweden …
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