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Markups in the euro area and the US over the period 1981-2004 : a comparison of 50 sectors
Christopoulou, Rebekka (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios or markups for 50 sectors in 8 euro area countries and the US over the period 1981-2004. The estimates are obtained applying the methodology developed by Roeger (1995) on the EU KLEMS March 2007 database. Five stylized facts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636104
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International transmission and monetary policy cooperation
Coenen, Günter; Lombardo, Giovanni; Smets, Frank; … - 2008
We use a version of the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM) developed at the ECB in order to quantify the gains from monetary policy cooperation. The model is calibrated in order to match a set of empirical moments. We then derive the cooperative and (open-loop) Nash monetary policies, assuming that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003636288
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? : new empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus (contributor); Čihák, Martin (contributor) - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key role in the transmission from competition to soundness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789457
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The impact of ECB monetary policy decisions and communication on the yield curve
Brand, Claus (contributor); Buncic, Daniel (contributor);  … - 2006
We analyse high-frequency changes in the euro area money market yield curve on dates when the ECB regularly sets and communicates decisions on policy interest rates to construct different indicators of monetary policy news relating to policy decisions and to central bank communication. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358614
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The behaviour of the real exchange rate : evidence from regression quantiles
Nikolaou, Kleopatra (contributor) - 2006
We test for mean reversion in real exchange rates using a recently developed unit root test for non-normal processes based on quantile autoregression inference in semi-parametric and non-parametric settings. The quantile regression approach allows us to directly capture the impact of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003358655
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Forecasting economic aggregates by disaggregates
Hendry, David F. (contributor); Hubrich, Kirstin (contributor) - 2006
We suggest an alternative use of disaggregate information to forecast the aggregate variable of interest, that is to include disaggregate information or disaggregate variables in the aggregate model as opposed to first forecasting the disaggregate variables separately and then aggregating those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280663
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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor);  … - 2006
sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337138
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An application of index numbers theory to interest rates
Huerga, Javier (contributor); Steklacova, Lucia (contributor) - 2008
This paper uses index number theory to disentangle changes in aggregate retail interest rates due to changes in individual component rates ("interest rate effect") from those caused by changes in the weights of each component ("weight effect"), on the basis of the "difference" index numbers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790944
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Macroeconomic adjustment to monetary union
Fagan, Gabriel (contributor); Gaspar, Vítor (contributor) - 2008
The move to monetary union in Europe led to convergence of interest rates among the participating countries. This was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790953
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The dynamic effects of shocks to wages and prices in the United States and the euro area
Duarte, Rita Netto de Miranda; Marques, Carlos Robalo - 2009
This paper investigates the dynamics of aggregate wages and prices in the United States (US) and the Euro Area (EA) with a special focus on persistence of real wages, wage and price inflation. The analysis is conducted within a structural vector errorcorrection model, where the structural shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867061