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Unemployment is now the key issue for economic policy in the OECD and Europe in particular.By examining data from the period 1962- 1996 for two highly different small open OECD economies, Finland and New Zealand, in a VE? model this paper seeks to cast light on three questions: the degree to...
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We use a panel of quarterly time series observations on Finnish banks to estimate reduced form equations for the growth rate of bank loans. By allowing for individual bank specific effects in the empirical models we specifically seek evidence of a bank-lending channel for the transmission of...
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This paper documents patterns of price setting at the retail level in the euro area, summarized in six stylized facts. First, the average euro area monthly frequency of price adjustment is 15 p.c., compared to about 25 p.c. in the US. Second, the frequency of price changes is characterized by...
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This paper presents original evidence on price setting in the euro area at the individual level. We use micro data on consumer (CPI) and producer (PPI) prices, as well as survey information. Our main findings are: (i) prices in the euro area are sticky and more so than in the US; (ii) there is...
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Macroeconomic models typically assume additively separable preferences where consumption enters the utility function in a logarithmic form. This restriction implies that consumption growth is highly sensitive to movements in real interest rates, which in turn implies an unrealistically steep...
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This paper documents patterns of price setting at the retail level in the euro area, summarized in six stylized facts. First, the average euro area monthly frequency of price adjustment is 15 p.c., compared to about 25 p.c. in the US. Second, the frequency of price changes is characterized by...
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Kotitalouksien säästämisaste on trendimäisesti alentunut Suomessa jo useamman vuoden ajan. Tämä näyttäisi muodostuvan ongelmalliseksi kasvavan vaihtotaseen alijäämän olosuhteissa. Säästämisasteen alenemiseen on useita syitä, joista yksi keskeisimmistä on kotitalouksien...
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Tutkimusraportissa esitellään tulokset, jotka on saatu selvitettäessä kestokulutushyödykkeiden kokonaiskysyntää. Tulokset viittaavat siihen, että kestokulutushyödykkeiden kysynnän kasvu voidaan selittää lähes täysin tulojen kasvulla ja kestokulutushyödykkeiden suhteellisten...
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Raportissa tutkitaan, onko Suomen ulkomainen velkaantuminen ollut tasapainoista vuoden 1970 jälkeen vai ei. Tasapainottomalla velkaantumisella tarkoitetaan tässä sitä, ovatko Suomen suhteellisen ulkomaisen nettovelan vaihtelut olleet liiallisia suhteessa taloudelliseen kasvuun. Saatujen...
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