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Employment and productivity growth in service and manufacturing sectors in France, Germany and the US
Wachter, Till von - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001599423
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Structural reform waves and economic growth
Marrazzo, Pasquale Marco; Terzi, Alessio - 2017
At a time of slow growth in several advanced and emerging countries, calls for more structural reforms are multiplying. However, estimations of the short- and medium-term impact of these reforms on GDP growth remain methodologically problematic and still highly controversial. We contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747694
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Reverse causality in global current accounts
Schnabl, Gunther; Freitag, Stephan - 2010
Germany as center countries with rising / high current account deficits (US) and surpluses (Germany). These are matched by … analysis extends from 1981-2008, the results for Germany mostly capture the situation before the euro was created. - Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973544
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Competition and stability : what's special about banking?
Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001670916
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Are internet prices sticky?
Lünnemann, Patrick (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper studies the behaviour of Internet prices. It compares price rigidities on the Internet and in traditional … over the Internet. It includes more than 5 million daily price quotes downloaded from price comparison web sites in France …, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US. The following results emerge from our analysis. First, and contrary to the recent findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337300
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The impact of exchange rate shocks on sectoral activity and prices in the euro area
Hahn, Elke (contributor) - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of exchange rate shocks on sectoral activity and prices in the euro area. Using a VAR framework it provides evidence on the magnitude and speed of the impact of exchange rate shocks on activity in all main euro area sectors and on activity and producer prices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003516678
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Instability and nonlinearity in the euro area Phillips curve
Musso, Alberto (contributor); Stracca, Livio (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the functional form of the euro area Phillips curve over the past three decades. In particular, compared to previous literature we analyse the stability of the relationship in detail, especially as regards the possibility of a time-varying mean of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003554817
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Transmission of government spending shocks in the euro area : time variation and driving forces
Kirchner, Markus; Cimadomo, Jacopo; Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2010
This paper provides new evidence on the effects of government spending shocks and the fiscal transmission mechanism in the euro area for the period 1980-2008. Our contribution is two-fold. First, we investigate changes in the macroeconomic impact of government spending shocks using time-varying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003986626
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Phillips curves in the euro area
Moretti, Laura; Onorante, Luca; Saber, Shayan Zakipour - 2019
We perform a robust estimation of the Phillips curve in the euro area using a battery of 630 theory-driven models. We extend the existing literature by adding model specifications, taking into account the uncertainty in the measurement of variables and testing for potential non-linearities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030232
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Macroeconomic forecasting and structural change
D'Agostino, Antonello; Gambetti, Luca; Giannone, Domenico - 2010
The aim of this paper is to assess whether explicitly modeling structural change increases the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasts. We produce real time out-of-sample forecasts for inflation, the unemployment rate and the interest rate using a Time-Varying Coefficients VAR with Stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971298