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In 1994 FOURIE AND SMITH ANALYSED the cement market in South Africa on a structural, conduct and performance basis and came to the conclusion, inter alia, that cement price trends and cement price levels were unacceptably high. They accused cement manufacturers of abusing their market power by...
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Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to agricultural data for the United Kingdom from 1953...
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This article examines whether real Health-care Expenditure (HE) is a luxury or necessity for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries over the period 1972 to 2004 within a panel unit root and panel cointegration framework. To realize this objective, we regress HE...
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This article documents seasonal patterns and other characteristics of electricity spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM), over a 7-year sample period. The goal is to investigate more specifically the influence of seasonalities and outliers noted in the body of literature...
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untersuchen. Der erste Aufsatz analysiert, wie das Verhalten der Inflation nach z.B. geldpolitischen Veränderungen erklärt werden … konventionelle Sichtweisen über die Inflation zu modellieren. Ich verwende ein DSGE Modell mit klebriger Information und vergleiche … on the macroeconomy. The first essay focuses on the question: how can we explain the behavior of inflation in response to …
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Mexico’s financial debacle and its impact on other emerging markets (the Tequila effect)has raised many fundamental questions. Mexico achieved fiscal balance in 1993, undertookseveral fundamental market-oriented reforms, signed a free trade agreement with a very largemarket (the NAFTA), became...
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adjustments similar to that observed in microeconomic data, both for low and high inflation. Our setup is based on one fundamental …, and because it implies a large fall in the standard deviation of price adjustments as trend inflation increases. Even …-behaved when we change the steady state inflation rate, matching the data at least as well as Golosov and Lucas' model …
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to iid and autocorrelated money growth shocks, and decompose the inflation impact into 'intensive margin', 'extensive … inflation and output. The real effects are substantially larger if money growth is autocorrelated. In contrast, if we instead … impose a fixed menu cost specification, money growth shocks cause a sharp spike in inflation (via the selection component) so …
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Intertemporal general-equilibrium models with Keynesian features such as imperfect competition and imperfectly flexible prices which give rise to a (at least) short-run non-neutrality of monetary policy have become the workhorse model for monetary macroeconomics. This thesis now makes four...
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