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paper investigates the role of demand and supply shocks behind this process. Structural VAR models are specified for the US … and the euro area. Shocks are identified by sign restrictions and external instruments. Demand shocks dominate in the US … inflation due to their adverse effects on demand. However, supply factors are beyond the control of central banks. Thus …
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The wage curve introduced by Blanchflower and Oswald (1990, 1994) postulates a negative correlation between wages and unemployment. Empirical results focus on particular theoretical channels establishing the relationship. Panel models mostly draw on unionized bargaining or the efficiency wage...
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The relevance of spatial effects in the wage curve can be rationalized by the model of monopsonistic competition in regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i.e. NUTS) classifications as they fail to adequately...
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This paper examines the relevance of the Lucas critique for euro area money demand. Based on the money in the utility … times of policy shifts. A well defined equation for money demand is obtained. The results indicate that the evolution of M3 … is still in line with money demand. In the long run, inflation is affected by asset prices and detrended output. Our …
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For many analysts, the Chinese economy is spurred by a bubble in the housing market, probably driven by the fiscal stimulus package and massive credit expansion, with possible adverse effects to the real economy. For example, the stock of loans increased by more than 50 percent since the end of...
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The analysis of monetary developments have always been a cornerstone of the ECB’s monetaryanalysis and, thus, of its overall monetary policy strategy. In this respect, money demandmodels provide a framework for explaining monetary developments and assessing price stabilityover the medium term....
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