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regards the possibility of a time-varying mean of inflation. Moreover, we conduct a sensitivity analysis across different … of the Phillips curve occurring in the early to mid 1980s, but not in inflation persistence once the mean shift is … allowed for. As a result of the structural change, the Phillips curve became flatter around a lower mean of inflation. Second …
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This paper assesses the existence and extent of transition cost for the OECD economies associated with the increasing Chinese competition in the export markets. We find that intensified Chinese competition is an important factor in explaining structural changes not only within the manufacturing...
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forces. De-industrialization processes may take place, shifting and confining developing countries in underdevelopment traps …
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Using the statistical technique of fuzzy clustering, regimes of inflation and unemployment are explored for the United … inflation/unemployment space. There is considerable similarity across the countries in both the regimes themselves and in the … timings of the transitions between regimes. However, the typical rates of inflation and unemployment experienced in the …
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We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the …, and robust for different estimators and financial development measures – suggest that inflation presented deleterious … inequality. Therefore, low and stable inflation, and all that it encompasses, is a necessary first step to achieve a deeper and …
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This paper investigates the sources of structural change in the Brazilian economy in the 2000s. On that purpose, it uses the input-output structural decomposition analysis and introduces a method to correct the influence of prices on the time behavior of the technical coefficients, making them...
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grows at higher rates. The paper compares Brazil and the CIBS from the point of view of the direction and intensity of … structural change. It is suggested that structural change has been relatively weak in Brazil and that this is associated with a …
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This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time … periods, and remains low. Whereas pass-through effects where high and close to 1 in the high-inflation period, they seem to … Industrialization (ISI) period of the 1950s and 1960s. Conventional results suggests that low and stable inflation environments lead to …
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many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally … importance of robust industrial policies if countries are to move from deindustrialization to reindustrialization. …
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Academic analyses and impact evaluation studies produced by the international development community almost all conclude that the microfinance model has made an important net contribution to the economic and social recovery of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia). However, as we now...
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