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We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) in seventeen countries using a large representative firm-level database. We use a simple model of firm cost minimization and measure each firm’s liquidity shortfall during and...
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This study investigates the effects of the global financial and economic crisis on Macedonia, with a particular focus on the period between 2008 and 2010. The counterfactual approach is used, according to which various hypothetical scenarios are created in order to simulate the movements of the...
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Poverty declined substantially in Mozambique between 1996/97 and 2014/15. However, the recent economic crisis, characterized by a significant increase in domestic prices, may have dragged several households into poverty. Using consumer price index and 2014/15 household budged survey data, we...
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The "great recession" has affected labor markets in Euro-area countries in very different ways. This chapter documents two important aspects of their response: the impact effect of the recession on the rate of unemployment, and the persistence of high unemployment. We find that countries lie on...
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This paper aims to examine the influence of the fiscal and budgetary policy to the labour market and how to determine the movement of filled employment positions from one period to another, the gross job creation, the gross job destruction, the job reallocation and the average job vacancies. The...
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The monetary policy is judged to be robust enough to withstand the possible macroeconomic shocks, irrespective of their international or internal origin. Nevertheless, the internal conditions may play an important role in the manner of designing and orienting the monetary policies. This article...
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- Finland and Sweden - after floating the currency. All four fiscal episodes were associated with an expansion; but only in … sterling coincidentally appreciated. In Finland and Sweden the currency experienced an extremely large depreciation after … wage negotiation process. In Finland and Sweden, the adoption of inflation targeting at the same time of the consolidation …
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