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The Concept, Policy Use and Measurement of Structural Unemployment : Estimating a Time Varying NAIRU Across 21 OECD Countries
Richardson, Pete; Boone, Laurence; Giorno, Claude; … - 2000
The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of major importance to the analysis of macro and structural economic developments, although in practice these concepts are not well defined and there is considerable uncertainty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444864
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Comparing Semi-Structural Methods to Estimate Unobserved Variables : The HPMV and Kalman Filters Approaches
Boone, Laurence - 2000
Economists often seek to estimate unobserved variables, representing “equilibrium” or “expected” values of economic variables, as benchmarks against which observed, realised values of these variables may be evaluated. Such comparisons are often used as economic policy indicators, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445291
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Comparing Semi-Structural Methods to Estimate Unobserved Variables: The HPMV and Kalman Filters Approaches
Boone, Laurence - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
Economists often seek to estimate unobserved variables, representing “equilibrium” or “expected” values of economic variables, as benchmarks against which observed, realised values of these variables may be evaluated. Such comparisons are often used as economic policy indicators, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045689
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The Concept, Policy Use and Measurement of Structural Unemployment: Estimating a Time Varying NAIRU Across 21 OECD Countries
Richardson, Pete; Boone, Laurence; Giorno, Claude; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
The structural rate of unemployment and associated non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (the NAIRU) are of major importance to the analysis of macro and structural economic developments, although in practice these concepts are not well defined and there is considerable uncertainty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046182
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The Role of Policy and Institutions for Productivity and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Micro and Industry Data
Scarpetta, Stefano; Hemmings, Philip; Tressel, Thierry; … - 2002
market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm-level database for ten OECD countries and industry … and labour markets. Aggregate productivity patterns are largely the result of within-firm performance. But, the … play an important role. Industry productivity performance is negatively affected by strict product market regulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443986
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
of productivity have been low in many domestically oriented sectors and consumer welfare has suffered under high prices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444046
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Norway
Høj, Jens - 2004
Norwegian growth has been strong over the past decade. This development has been supported by the off-shore sector, but depleting oil reserves implies that growth will have to rely increasingly on the mainland economy. Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444401
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Do Product Market Regulations in Upstream Sectors Curb Productivity Growth? : Panel Data Evidence for OECD Countries
Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy; … - 2010
improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445881
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Modeling Institutions, Start-ups and Productivity during Transition
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2010
Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity … reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the literature has focused mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446606
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Modeling Institutions, Start-ups and Productivity during Transition
Brixiova, Zuzana; Égert, Balázs - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Baltic countries, which opted for a fast and profound transformation of their institutions, rapidly narrowed the productivity … reforms later and contented with less depth, the productivity gap remains substantial. While the literature has focused mainly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465165