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inflation and the rate of unemployment are correlated. This paper uses a variant of the PC that is more consistent with the … pooled data. The Expectations Augmented (EA) is able to track a negative relation between inflation and unemployment better …
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...
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Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...
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High inter-country variability characterises the responsiveness of both output to (exogenous) shocks and employment to output contractions. We argue that intercountry differences in firm-size distributions contribute to explaining this variability. Within an open economy model, we show that...
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As critical piece of China’s gradualist economic transition, domestic price reform still faces major challenges. In particular, factor price, which is still tightly-controlled and not market-based, is lower than market equilibrium price. Factor price distortion not only reduces market...
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We study the effects of demand, tax and supply shocks in one- and two-country macroeconomic models with fixed exchange rates, with our main emphasis on the stabilisation properties of progressive taxation. The models try to depict outcomes for the EMU countries. In the one-country model we...
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We study how the interaction between economic openness and competitive selection affects the effectiveness of employment (and entry) subsidisation. Within a twocountry heterogeneous-firms model with endogenous labour supply, we find that optimal employment subsidies are always positive even...
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inflation, a finding that is at odds with the assumption of constant indexation parameters in most New-Keynesian DSGE models. We … response to aggregate shocks and monetary policy. We show that workers index wages to past inflation when output fluctuations … are primarily explained by technology and permanent inflation-target shocks, whereas they index to trend inflation when …
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past inflation during the Great Inflation but not during the Great Moderation. However, most DSGE models assume fixed … monetary policy. We find that workers index their wages to past inflation when technology and permanent inflation-target shocks … drive output fluctuations; when aggregate demand shocks do, workers index to trend-inflation. In addition, workers' choices …
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This paper examines the factors contributing to the rise in unemployment in Australia during the depression of the 1930s and to its decline in the subsequent recovery. While previous writers have generally argued that demand side variables were predominant, it has also claimed that excessive...
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