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The empirical growth literature has focused on capital accumulation but largely ignored productivity growth. To address this imbalance, we propose a methodology for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions. We examine whether departures from the frontier are...
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A method for analyzing productivity convergence based on frontier production functions is proposed. It is examined whether departures from the frontier
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Die derzeitigen Turbulenzen auf den Immobilienmärkten in Ländern wie den USA und Spanien verstellen den Blick auf die längerfristige Entwicklung der realen Immobilienpreise. Während sie in den vergangenen Jahren in vielen westlichen Industrieländern deutlich anzogen, stagnieren sie...
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Summary Following standard real business cycle theory, long run economic growth and short run business cycle fluctuations are attributed to a series of productivity shocks propagated by the economic system which is assumed to be in a rational expectations equilibrium. Characterizing the...
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Summary The objectives of this paper are (i) to assess the actual economic implications of the new European banana policy on prices, consumption and trade in Germany within a theoretical and quantitative analysis; (ii) to elaborate the welfare implications of the European banana market policy on...
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Systems wird mit Tests auf schwache Exogenität untersucht. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, daß die Anpassung an das …-seasonal adjusted data from 1968 to 1989. The empirical analysis is based on cointegration techniques using the multivariate error … investment series. Given this result, the evidence for cointegration relationships at the seasonal frequencies is rather weak …
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Summary The rise of the East-German economy in the 1950s and 1960s and its decline in the 1970s and 1980s is difficult to explain by neoclassical economics. However; the observed life cycle may be explained by the inclusion of concepts from old and new institutional economics and from functional...
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-LM model of the open economy, we conduct a cointegration analysis from which we obtain plausible long-run relationships. In the …
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first step, a cointegration analysis of productivity, prices, real wages, employment, and the unemployment rate reveals two …
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Summary In this paper aggregate supply and demand functions for Germany’s imports and exports are estimated for the period 1975:1–1999:4. Previous studies are extended in two regards: First, the multivariate estimation technique of Johansen (1988, 1991) is employed, which helps to avoid the...
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