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Will the (German) NAIRU please stand up?
Franz, Wolfgang - 2003
This paper deals with a critical assessment and a reestimation of the "non-accelerating in ation rate of unemployment" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical instrument, suitable for economic policy: the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448601
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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries
Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999
The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442518
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Fiscal stimulus and distortionary taxation
Drautzburg, Thorsten; Uhlig, Harald - 2011 - This revision: May 30, 2011
We quantify the fiscal multipliers in response to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009. We extend the benchmark Smets-Wouters (Smets and Wouters, 2007) New Keynesian model, allowing for credit-constrained households, the zero lower bound, government capital and distortionary...
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Neues von der NAIRU?
Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444884
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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis
Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013
While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204043
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After the death of inflation : will fiscal drag survive?
Heinemann, Friedrich - 2000
Declining inflation rates might have negative consequences for tax revenues. Phenomena like the inflationary bracket … lay the theoretical base followed by a descriptive view on the relation between inflation, growth and tax revenues in the … reveal that an end of inflation would have a negative impact on tax revenues for a number of OECD countries. The results also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444606
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Do business-related services really lag behind manufacturing industries in the business cycle? : empirical evidence on the lead/lag relationship between business-related services a...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Voß, Katrin - 1999
In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442943
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416210
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Returns to education and individual heterogeneity
Maier, Michael (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002038932
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GPD-linked bonds as a financing tool for developing countries and emerging markets
Schröder, Michael; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kruse, Susanne; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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