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The Finnish developmental state and its growth regime
Jäntti, Markus; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2009
This paper reviews Finland's growth strategy in the postwar decades. Finland was able to initiate an impressive mobilization of resources during this period, reflected mostly in a high rate of capital accumulation for manufacturing industries. This was achieved by an unorthodox combination of...
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Integration, social distress, and policy formation
Stark, Oded - 2012
I study the integration of regions in the form of a merger of populations, which I interpret as a revision of people's social space and their comparison set; I illustrate the way in which a merger can aggravate social distress; and I consider policy responses. Specifically, I view the merger of...
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Optimal central bank conservatism and monopoly trade unions
Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten; Schöb, Ronnie - 2000
The conservative central banker has come under attack recently. Explicitly modeling the interaction of a trade union with monetary policy, it has been argued that the standard solution to the inflationary bias in monetary policy might actually be welfare reducing if the trade union has an...
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Central banks: No reason to ignore money
Scheide, Joachim - 1998
the long run is caused by high money growth; the empirical evidence in favor of the quantity theory of money is … targeting or the main predictions of the quantity theory of money. The instability of money demand has led many central banks to … prevail among central bankers and economists alike. After all, the quantity theory of money holds well enough to stress the …
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Imperfect Competition, Monetary Policy and Welfare in a Currency Area
Lombardo, Giovanni - 2002
This paper studies the implication, in terms of welfare and monetary policy, of unequal degrees of competition across members of a currency area. We look at two ways in which the degree of competition in the market for goods can affect welfare in a currency area. One is through different average...
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The welfare effects of inflation: a cost-benefit perspective
Tödter, Karl-Heinz; Manzke, Bernhard - 2007
This paper reviews theory and evidence of the welfare effects of inflation from a costbenefit perspective. Basic models …
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Sticky Information vs. Sticky Prices : A Horse Race in a DSGE Framework
Trabandt, Mathias - 2003
Mankiw and Reis (2002) have proposed sticky information as an alternative to Calvo sticky prices in order to model the conventional view that i) inflation reacts with delay and gradually to a monetary policy shock, ii) announced and credible disinflations are contractionary and iii) inflation...
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The early years of inflation targeting: Review and outlook
Billmeier, Andreas - 1999
This paper deals with a 'new' type of monetary policy making: Inflation Targeting (IT). It attempts to identify reasons for which countries might be inclined to adopt this framework for monetary policy. By reviewing recent experience of inflation targeting countries, the paper outlines the major...
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Heterogeneous policy responses and the risk of monetary disintegration in Europe
Cornelius, Peter K.; Trimbur, Thomas - 2000
Leaving EMU would create great legal uncertainty and costly litigation and would hence involve extremely high costs for a country that has fully been euronized. Nevertheless, it is conceivable that these costs are not high enough to eliminate fully the risk of monetary disintegration in Europe....
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Central banks, trade unions and reputation - is there room for an expansionist manoeuvre in the European Union?
Pusch, Toralf; Heise, Arne - 2008
It is now a few years since the introduction of the common currency, and Europe is still experiencing high unemployment. The conventional logic attributes this problem to strong trade unions and other flaws in the labour market. This article takes a different approach. Using a game theoretic...
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