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Regime-switching in expectations over the business cycle

Eudey, Gwen; Perli, Roberto - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1999

In this paper the authors argue that a plausible reason why output and other major U.S. macroeconomic time series seem to follow a Markov switching process might be strictly related to expectations. The authors show that a time series of expectations of future output from the Survey of...

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A macroeconomia do bem-estar social: relações e controvérsias

Martini, Ricardo Agostini; Júnior, Frederico G. Jayme; … - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2011

According to recent studies, shocks on aggregated variables are associated with unequal impacts on the economic system, affecting more some agents and sectors than others according, depending on their characteristics. Theoretically, the mechanisms that differentiate shocks’ effects on economic...

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Produttività, progresso tecnico ed efficienza nei paesi OCSE

Manello, Alessandro - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2008

This paper aims at analyzing trends in TFP and labour productivity growth. Data Envelopment Analysis is used to … estimate a technological frontier and to compare all nations to it. The estimation of Malmquist productivity index as TFP … indicators allows to decompose labour productivity growth in efficiency change, technical progress and capital accumulation. This …

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Quali sono i fattori determinanti della moderna crescita economica? Analisi comparativa delle performance dei paesi

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2007

. The main results are: the best economic performance (and higher productivity) has been achieved by USA, followed by Europe …

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Report on trends in the Italian productive system

Brandolini, Andrea; Bugamelli, Matteo; Barone, Guglielmo; … - Banca d'Italia - 2009

In the last decade the Italian economy has underperformed compared both with the previous decades and with the main European countries. It is widely acknowledged that this evolution reflects unresolved structural problems, which have become more urgent in view of the major changes in the world...

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Aspectos teóricos e metodológicos da relação entre o estado de saúde e a desigualdade de renda

Noronha, Kenya; Andrade, Mônica Viegas - Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional … - 2006

One of the main socioeconomic problems observed in most countries – particularly in less developed countries – is the presence of high income inequality and poverty level. Several empirical works have attempted to analyze their major determinants as well as their effect on some indicators...

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Jornada de trabalho: o exemplo europeu [Hours of work: the European example]

Mattos, Fernando Augusto M. de - In: Nova Economia 10 (2000) 2, pp. 117-143

This paper examines the role played by the decline in average annual hours of work per person in employment over the behavior of unemployment rate in Europe since II World War. The results show that, during the Golden Age of Capitalism in the twentieth century, the pronounced reduction in the...

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Cooperative research and firm performance

Horvath, Reka - Közgazdaság-tudományi Intézet, Közgazdaság- és … - 2001

on productivity, using a large panel of around 6200 firms. The findings of the theoretical literature on this topic are … consortia increases productivity. …

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30 Anos de Investigação Sobre Externalidades do IDE para as Empresas Domésticas – Que Conclusões?

Crespo, Nuno; Fontoura, Maria Paula - ISEG - School of Economics and Management, Department … - 2006

During the last three decades, a vast literature emerged on the empirical evidence of productivity spillovers from FDI … thereby raise their productivity level. Results obtained so far are however mixed, and it does not seem possible to get a …

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Produtividade, Competitividade e Quotas de Exportação

Santos, Jorge - Gabinete de Estratégia e Estudos (GEE), Ministério da … - 2007

the unit labour costs (nominal and real) depends on the evolution of the labour compensation and labour productivity, this …

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